Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any theory of ethics which makes the summum bonum to consist, not in the excitement of particular feelings, but in a particular state of mind considered as an activity.
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Examples
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The memorable lines on spring in the second book are cast into the form of old poetry, but the basis of them is Epicurean energism, as in Lucretius 'prooemium.
Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922
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We need neither to cast aside the mechanical view of the world nor to accept energism; neither of them is required.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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He is endeavouring to find a foundation for a religious energism that will avoid the dangers which beset Luther's principle
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries Rufus Matthew Jones 1905
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers sees Satoshi loosely turn his sights toward the spy genre in a premise far removed from that of his first feature, but one which retains the kind of skewed psychological underpinnings and energism that made the former so enjoyable.
DVD Times 2009
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers sees Satoshi loosely turn his sights toward the spy genre in a premise far removed from that of his first feature, but one which retains the kind of skewed psychological underpinnings and energism that made the former so enjoyable.
DVD Times 2009
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