Ambition

Am·bi·tion

Ambition

n.
  1. The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing. [Obs.]
    [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
  2. An eager, and sometimes an inordinate, desire for preferment, honor, superiority, power, or the attainment of something.
    Cromwell, I charge thee, fling a way ambition: By that sin fell the angels.
    The pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres.

Ambition

v. t.
  1. To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]
    Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage.