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- noun Plural form of
impulsion .
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Examples
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Later on, when each developed individuality and became personally conscious of impulsions and desires, the attraction of the light increased.
The Gray Cub 2010
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He experienced two great impulsions — to yield and to fight.
The Makers of Fire 2010
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Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions.
Religio Medici 2007
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A certain half-seeing and imperfect subordination of the personal will to an ill-understood greater Will and Power, a stumbling and occasional intuition or at best a brilliant lightning like intimation of its commands and impulsions, a confused, clouded and often grossly distorted execution of the little one seizes of a divine Mandate seems to be the uttermost that the human consciousness as it is at its best seems able to accomplish.
Transformation Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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We ought to see physical inertia as an expression of a certain constitutional ignorance, immanent in the earth conditions and in each being this ignorance becomes an expression, a type that supports its special psychological impulsions and a character made of up thousand contradictions.
The Transformation Of Physical Inertia Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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In a sense, the physical being finds its support on a constitutional atavism – which is also universal -, a crude mechanism that aggregates all our tendencies, impulsions and actions on earth.
The Transformation Of Physical Inertia Tusar N Mohapatra 2006
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Universality was now sought in emotion along with conformity to the voice of the spontaneous impulsions of beings.
18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006
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You feel the wrath of my impulsions, and I never fully flesh them out.
simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2005
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It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservations.
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But this consciousness may be complete in certain melancholies and very incomplete in certain impulsions.
A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 Various
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