conatus
Example Sentences
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Ille stolide perrexerunt ad dicunt quod "illi conatus defecerint."
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
It also follows that there is a conatus more interior, that is, the conatus to produce uses for the animal kingdom through vegetable growths, since by these animals of every kind are nourished.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
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
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
This conatus is afterwards continuous from the lands through the root even to outmosts, and from outmosts to firsts, wherein use itself is in its origin.
From Angelic Wisdom Concerning the Divine Love and the Divine Wisdom by Ager, John
