conatus

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

Ter conatus ibi eollo dare brachia eircum, Ter frustra eomprensa manus effugit imago, Par levibus ventis voluerique simillima sommo.

From Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete by Cary, Henry Francis

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 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

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