conatus
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It was a conatus, what physiologists call a nisus, a struggle in a very ambitious spark, or scintilla, to kindle into a fire.
From Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey
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 John Ager
And as the human form is made up of all the things there are in man, it follows that love or the will is in a continual conatus and effort to form all these.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by John Ager
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 Emanuel Swedenborg
He ignored that inner drive which Spinoza called the conatus; or the seeds of Paracelsus or van Helmont; or the persistence over a time course of any "essence" or "form."
From Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 by Charles W. Bodemer
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