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Definition of "nisus" []

  • An effort or endeavor to realize an aim. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "nisus" in a sentence
  • ""nisus"; not even _struggle_, in the sense of _contention_, an endeavour an effort, a strain."
  • "'nisus' will, I think, be more profitably employed in enkindling meditation on holiness, and thirstings after the mind of Christ."
  • "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."