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Definition of Impetuses
1. impetus [n] - See also: impetus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Impetuses
Literary usage of Impetuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Santa Teresa: Being Some Account of Her Life and Times : Together with Some by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (1907)
"I was seized with such great impetuses of this love . . . that it seemed to me
that my ... There is no connection, however, between impetuses such as these, ..."
2. In Defense of the Earthżs Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to by Edward Grant (2007)
"In short, for westward cannon shots, the two impetuses resist and ... The penetration
of the clay ball is deep because two impetuses reinforce each other, ..."
3. Art and Industry: Education in the Industrial and Fine Arts in the United States by United States Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke (1892)
"There is a lack of sufficient impetuses of compensation as an offset to the
requirements which are not in themselves too high but yet are always one-sided. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"It affords an example of the marvellous perfection to which an organ may attain
by practice. ' ' The juggler is obliged to give impetuses that vary ..."
5. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"One of my cherish'd themes for a never-achiev'd poem has been the two impetuses
of man and the universe—in the latter, creation's incessant unrest,* ex- ..."
6. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, ebrary, Inc, National Research Council, International Committee, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1999)
"One of the major impetuses for the development of experimental animals and for
putting the effort into experimental animals that is represented by our ..."
7. Santa Teresa: Being Some Account of Her Life and Times : Together with Some by Gabriela Cunninghame Graham (1907)
"I was seized with such great impetuses of this love . . . that it seemed to me
that my ... There is no connection, however, between impetuses such as these, ..."
8. In Defense of the Earthżs Centrality and Immobility: Scholastic Reaction to by Edward Grant (2007)
"In short, for westward cannon shots, the two impetuses resist and ... The penetration
of the clay ball is deep because two impetuses reinforce each other, ..."
9. Art and Industry: Education in the Industrial and Fine Arts in the United States by United States Office of Education, Isaac Edwards Clarke (1892)
"There is a lack of sufficient impetuses of compensation as an offset to the
requirements which are not in themselves too high but yet are always one-sided. ..."
10. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"It affords an example of the marvellous perfection to which an organ may attain
by practice. ' ' The juggler is obliged to give impetuses that vary ..."
11. Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman (1891)
"One of my cherish'd themes for a never-achiev'd poem has been the two impetuses
of man and the universe—in the latter, creation's incessant unrest,* ex- ..."
12. Microbial and Phenotypic Definition of Rats and Mice: Proceedings of the by National Research Council Staff, ebrary, Inc, National Research Council, International Committee, Commission on Life Sciences, National Academy of Sciences (1999)
"One of the major impetuses for the development of experimental animals and for
putting the effort into experimental animals that is represented by our ..."
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