ppl. a. [f. COMPETE v.2 + -ING2.] That competes.
1862. Ruskin, Munera P. (1880), 103. The gracious or loving, instead of the strained, or competing manner of doing things.
1868. Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, i. (1869), 11. The Cyclic Poems … never attained to an equal or competing fame.
Mod. Several of the competing poems have been published.
