animus

purposes

noun. intention, meaning, aim

Word Origin & History

1820, "temper" (usually in a hostile sense), from Latin animus "rational soul, mind, life, mental powers; courage, desire," related to anima "living being, soul, mind, disposition, passion, courage, anger, spirit, feeling," from PIE root *ane- "to blow, to breathe" (cf. Greek anemos "wind," Sanskrit aniti "breathes," Old Irish anal, Welsh anadl "breath," Old Irish animm "soul," Gothic uzanan "to exhale," Old Norse anda "to breathe," Old English eðian "to breathe," Old Church Slavonic vonja "smell, breath," Armenian anjn "soul"). It has no plural. As a term in Jungian psychology for the masculine component of a feminine personality, it dates from 1923.

Example Sentences foranimus

It indicated that the animus of which I am speaking is almost a commonplace.

But fraud is hard to suppress when the animus of the perpetrator is wrong.

Easter was too far away, and the animus of the school was for quiet study.

I gather, that her animus is, in all honesty, directed at the—I quote—state of sin.

Austen did not smile; he could well understand his father's animus in this matter.

In the ring he struck to hurt, struck to maim, struck to destroy; but there was no animus in it.

Now their animus against Gourlay prompted them to back it up.

His "dear brother's" popularity and big salary were not the animus of that criticism—oh, no!

Boniface perceived the animus of his foe, but bore himself as loftily as ever.

The effect upon their mental condition of this loss of animus was immediate.

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