conation
Example Sentences
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With all due respect to conation, I split for Bond — James Bond — complete with a video clip of the incumbent spy, the actor Daniel Craig, being tortured.
From New York Times
That movement is the resultant of the spiritual potency after experiences in the form of cognition have marked out the path for conation.
From Project Gutenberg
The cognition is indirect, the conation is indirect, only the effect is immediate.
From Project Gutenberg
Volition, therefore, following McDougall, may be defined as the supporting or re-enforcing of a desire or conation by the cooperation of an impulse excited within the system of the self-regarding sentiment.
From Project Gutenberg
This conation is an inheritance; it is present in the form of dissatisfaction with the present situation; it moves in the direction of a goal which is marked out by intellect.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
