impellent

Example Sentences

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They were visions of conquest and exploration, an almost mystical impellent that drove him time and again from one horizon to another.

From Time Magazine Archive

He came to his feet with an impellent desire to crush this unholy man like a toad, to flee into the night, to lie under the stars and seek clearance for his troubles.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

Death is unconscious; but unconsciousness is no attribute of a mental state that is living and impellent and constantly manifests its active energy and power in the maintenance of the vital functions of the body.

From Psychology and Achievement Being the First of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Hilton, Warren

What impellent was driving him toward these introspections?

From The Drums of Jeopardy by MacGrath, Harold

Cleve, noting the smile, divined something of the 166 impellent thought behind that smile, and he grew uneasy.

From The Pagan Madonna by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)