conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
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
This desire is the perpetual conatus of that love, from which flow all its effects.
From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
