conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
Nequaquam enim mortem intentat matri, sed actione, quam non ipse sed corpus matris producit, conatur ad lucem pervenire, et iste conatus non nisi ex naturali concursu rerum fit matri causa mortis.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin
Moreover, within everything spiritual there is a conatus to clothe itself with a body.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
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
It further follows that in all these there is an inmost conatus, the conatus to perform use to the human race.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
