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Definition of Impelling
1. Adjective. Markedly effective as if by emotional pressure. "An impelling personality"
Definition of Impelling
1. Verb. (present participle of impel) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Impelling
1. impel [v] - See also: impel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impelling
Literary usage of Impelling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Conflicts and Misconduct by William Healy (1917)
"CHAPTER VI CONFLICTS CAUSING impelling IDEAS THE fact that mental conflicts give
rise to impelling ideas is the essential reason for mental analysis coming ..."
2. Effective Speaking: An Exposition of the Laws of Effectiveness in the Choice by Arthur Edward Phillips (1908)
"impelling Motives may be defined as man's spiritual, intellectual, moral and
material wants. For working purposes they may be given the following ..."
3. Thoughts on the Future Civil Policy of America by John William Draper (1875)
"The impelling power of Ideas is illustrated in the case of Mohammedanism, ...
To this we have now to add the impelling and resisting power of Ideas. ..."
4. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"I don't doubt you any longer," said Dorothea, putting out her hand—a vague fear
for him impelling- her unutterable affection. He took her hand and raised it ..."
5. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation by Jeremy Bentham (1879)
"... may be termed an impelling motive: any motive, the influence of which tends
to dispose him not to engage in it, a restraining motive. ..."
6. The Cause of Business Depressions as Disclosed by an Analysis of the Basic by Hugo Bilgram, Louis Edward Levy (1914)
"Production is regulated by two forces, the one impelling, the other ... Desire the
impelling Force.—Things which have a capacity for satisfying human wants ..."
7. Text-book of School and Class Management by Felix Arnold (1909)
"The impelling feelings in brief should be (1) satisfaction, ease, pleasure, ...
Immanence of the aim, means, and impelling feeling in the individual. ..."
8. A History of Missouri from the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until by Louis Houck (1908)
"... Authorized by Congress—Negotiations by Monroe and Livingston in Paris— Motives
impelling Napoleon to Sell Louisiana—Sale Quickly Consummated —Marbois' ..."
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