conatus

Example Sentences

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

From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013

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

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

Itaque ad hujusmodi conatus nolite expavescere; jam enim toties eorum calumniae repulsae sunt, ut nihil nunc agant, quam vetera ut nova proponere, instaurare disjecta, detecta retexere.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 by Various

But let application of this be made to living conatus, and to living force, and to living motion.

From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John

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