Meaning of corrival | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fellow rival; a competitor; a rival.
2. A companion.
   archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“So he that doth redeem her thence might wear⟳ Without corrival all her dignities: But out upon this half-facd fellowship!”

“Petronius calleth this paſſion [i.e., jealousy] amantium furioſam æmulationem, a furious emulation, and their ſymptomes are well expreſſed by Sʳ Ieffrey Chaucer in his firſt Canterbury tale. It will make⟳ the neareſt & deareſt friends fall⟳ out; they will endure al other things to be common, goods, lands, moneyes, participate⟳ of all other pleaſures, and take⟳ in good part any diſgraces, iniuries in another kind, but as Propertius well deſcribes it in an Elegie of his, in this they will ſuffer nothing, have⟳ no corriuals.”

“The Prince of Wales, Lord John of Lancaster, The noble Westmoreland, and warlike Blunt; And many more corrivals and dear men Of estimation and command in arms.”

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