conatus

Example Sentences

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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

The image of the Infinite in these forms is plain from their conatus and power to fill the spaces of the whole world, and even of many worlds, to infinity.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

Here, however, I choose to confirm them only by the conatus, forces and motions in dead and in living subjects.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

In the animals this conatus takes the form of appetite, in man of desire, which is “appetite with the consciousness of it.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various