Nisus

Word NISUS
Character 5
Hyphenation ‖Ni sus
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Definitions and meanings of "Nisus"

What do we mean by nisus?

An effort or endeavor to realize an aim. noun

The generative impulse occurring periodically, as with many creatures in the spring. noun

Effort; endeavor; conatus. noun

A genus of small hawks of the family Falconidæ, containing such as are called in Great Britain sparrow-hawks. See Accipiter. noun

A striving; an effort; a conatus. noun

The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc. noun

The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate feces or urine. noun

A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving noun

An effortful attempt to attain a goal noun

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The word "nisus" in example sentences

"nisus"; not even _struggle_, in the sense of _contention_, an endeavour an effort, a strain. ❋ Various (N/A)

'nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ. ❋ Henry Nelson Coleridge (1820)

And the effort of that nexus is, as Barfield likes to put it, a nisus — and a very useful word. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Barfield believes in a nisus, a struggling to be born and to emerge into consciousness of the internal ordering principle by which a plant develops, an embryo develops, etc. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

He insists that religious belief as a whole is not superstition, and that it is true so far as it is an expression of a ˜nisus to totality™ or a ˜move to wholeness.™ ❋ Unknown (2009)

While our concerns surely be grounded in "abandonment, exposure, and vulnerability," it is worth staying awake to the evolutionary nisus that beckons. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)

The following bird species occur in the Laurissilva forest: Accipiter nisus, Apus unicolor and Fringila coelebs maderensis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The attitude that words may be discarded -- indeed, that words have caducity at all -- is not salubriously abstergent, but reflects an agrestic nisus that all cultivated English speakers must eschew. ❋ Angry Professor (2008)

The operation of a nisus perhaps needs the tension of a conflictsome scenario and hence, the actual hardly helps. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2008)

In final support of his more scientific, monogenist approach, Blumenbach posited the internal, biological force which generated racial difference, the “nisus formativus,” which when triggered by specific environmental stimuli generated the variations found within the varieties of humans ❋ James, Michael (2008)

Savitri Era: The Vedic nisus cannot join hands with Buddhism skip to main ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2007)

Savitri Era Learning Forum: The evolutionary nisus skip to main ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother visualized a glorious destiny for man which could be hastened if man co-operated with the evolutionary nisus. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

I need to read the paper more closely, but it looks like a modified endeavor or nisus theory to borrow some terms from Hume, whose criticism of this type of theory I've questioned. ❋ Unknown (2005)

It must, however, be confessed, that the animal nisus, which we experience, though it can afford no accurate precise idea of power, enters very much into that vulgar, inaccurate idea, which is formed by it. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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