conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

In heaven, with conjugial partners, there is spring in its perpetual conatus, 355.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

He adds: "�s magnum tempus, quo id dispungere conatus est, parvum."

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

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

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