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Definition of nisus

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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
    “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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noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving.
    “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.”
  2. (uncountable, usually)The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc.
  3. (uncountable, usually)The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.

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Etymology

From Latin nīsus (“pressure, exertion”).

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