In North Carolina this word is used instead of the word grudge, as, "I had an ambition against that man." I am credibly informed that it is even used in this manner by educated men.
TO AMBITION
(Fr. ambitionner.) Ambitiously to seek after.--Webster.
This is what I ambition for my own country.--Jefferson's Writings.
This word is not common. It is not in the English Dictionaries; yet examples may be found of its use by late English Writers.
On dress occasions, the ladies of the upper ranks despise the mantilla, ambitioning nothing so much as a fashionable French bonnet.--London Spectator, June 7, 1845.