conatus

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire.

From Miscellaneous Essays by De Quincey, Thomas

M. Manlius, unde Gallos depulerat, inde ipse praecipitatus est, quia fortiter defensam libertatem nefarie opprimere conatus fuerat.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

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