nisus

NOUN
  1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal
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How To Use nisus In A Sentence

  • Achates, and the tender Nisus, were all genuine friends and great heroes; but, alas, existent only in fable: A Philosophical Dictionary
  • The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee. Archive 2009-03-01
  • 1, 17, 'Non uti summus philosophus nec rhetor disertus nec grammaticus summis rationibus artis exercitatus, sed ut architectus his litteris imbutus haec nisus sum scribere.' The Student's Companion to Latin Authors
  • 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. Archive 2008-10-01
  • 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.™ My Recycled Soul
  • The following bird species occur in the Laurissilva forest: Accipiter nisus, Apus unicolor and Fringila coelebs maderensis. Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira, Portugal
  • 'nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • While our concerns surely be grounded in "abandonment, exposure, and vulnerability," it is worth staying awake to the evolutionary nisus that beckons. Archive 2009-08-01
  • 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. A malison on the poor of spirit.
  • 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. A malison on the poor of spirit.
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