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nisus
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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- Effort, endeavour; (now) especially impulse, tendency.
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Origin
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late 17th century; earliest use found in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. From classical Latin nīsus effort, endeavour, tendency from nītī to strive, to exert oneself + -tus, suffix forming verbal nouns
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