animus

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  1. noun An attitude that informs one's actions; disposition.
  2. noun A feeling of animosity; ill will. See Synonyms at enmity.
  3. noun In Jungian psychology, the masculine inner personality as present in women.

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  • As to the animus, there seems to be quite a lot of it knocking about. —  The Ivory Dagger - Patricia WentworthMiss Silver 19
  • Miss Stisted writes with an unconcealed animus, and is not so much concerned in defending the purity of her uncle's Protestantism as in vilifying her aunt and the faith to which she belonged. —  The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II
  • I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible -- murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals -- and could exhibit even "animus" toward such conduct. —  The Bilerico Project
  • Surely that is the only sort of "animus" at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual conduct, the same sort of moral disapproval that produced the centuries old criminal laws that we held constitutional. —  The Bilerico Project
  • Underscoring the persistent animus, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko on Thursday warned the U.S. against helping the "aggressor" Georgia rebuild its military. —  Forbes.com: News
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  1. Latin; see anə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, the mind, in a great variety of meanings: the rational soul in man, intellect, consciousness, will, intention, courage, spirit, sensibility, feeling, passion, pride, vehemence, wrath, etc., the breath, life, soul (cf. Greek ἂνεμος, wind: see anemone), closely related to anima, which is a fem, form: see anima.
 

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