How To Use Nisus In A Sentence
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Achates, and the tender Nisus, were all genuine friends and great heroes; but, alas, existent only in fable:
A Philosophical Dictionary
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The temptation to prove or disprove something with an aphorism or epigram secures instant juvenile glee, but nisus of impelling wider perspective flee.
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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
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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
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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
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The following bird species occur in the Laurissilva forest: Accipiter nisus, Apus unicolor and Fringila coelebs maderensis.
Floresta Laurissilva da Madeira, Portugal
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'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
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While our concerns surely be grounded in "abandonment, exposure, and vulnerability," it is worth staying awake to the evolutionary nisus that beckons.
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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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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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Nisus had eluded pursuit and was out of danger.
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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.
Order « Unknowing
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And the effort of that nexus is, as Barfield likes to put it, a nisus — and a very useful word.
A Cold Shower « Unknowing
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nisus"; not even _struggle_, in the sense of _contention_, an endeavour an effort, a strain.
Notes and Queries, Number 36, July 6, 1850
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Nisus wild with anxiety turned back to find him.
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The Atdabanian epoch saw the emergence of the calcareous shelled Nisusiidae, the earliest and most primitive of the articulate brachiopods.