conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Libera me de manu adversariorum meorum: confunde ingenia et conatus eorum contra me.

From Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by Tyler, James Endell

The first production from these earthy matters, while they were still new and in their simple state, was production of seed; the first conatus therein could not be any other.

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

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

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