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nisus

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Definitions

  1. an effortful attempt to attain a goal

Word origin

From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”).

Used in a sentence

  • The godly personality of a higher order, as the telos of the nisus of moral categoriality, is the sensus plenior of the nisus to a universal communalization of perspectives.
  • The immanent nisus to completion, therefore, drives the complex to the explication of its internal relations so that they become recognizable as such.

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