One of several competitors having an equal claim to someone or something, especially a rival suitor.
he doth suspect corrivals in his love
Example sentencesExamples
Zephyrus hated Hyacinthus because he scorned him, and preferred his corrival Apollo.
Adam cast him into so narrow a mould, as to think that himself, who had newly sprouted up by his almighty power, was fit to be his corrival in knowledge.
Though there be many corrivals, only one carries the prize.
His corrival was Thomas Radcliffe, Earl of Sussex, who in his constellation was his direct opposite.
She dwelt with young Bold's sister, he that is my corrival in your love.