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animus

[an-uh-muhs] / ˈæn ə məs /
NOUN
hostility
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Think of it like the Animus from the games, only you use it to launch video games.

From The Verge • Sep. 10, 2022

The only other exception comes during a brief moment when Callum, beginning to lose it after a rough ride in the Animus, begins singing some Patsy Cline.

From Slate • Dec. 22, 2016

It’s all lovely, of course, but it certainly feels like Assassin’s Creed: Mordor—minus, one hopes, any whiff of the silly Animus stuff.

From Forbes • Jan. 24, 2014

But without Templars and the Animus, it’s just not an Assassin’s Creed game.

From Forbes • Mar. 3, 2013

Animus and intent were never more present in any human action, nor did any human activity ever more definitely point back to a living agent as its source and origin.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry




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