conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Itaque ad hujusmodi conatus nolite expavescere; jam enim toties eorum calumniae repulsae sunt, ut nihil nunc agant, quam vetera ut nova proponere, instaurare disjecta, detecta retexere.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 by Various

This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin.

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

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

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