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  • noun Plural form of impulsion.

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Examples

  • Later on, when each developed individuality and became personally conscious of impulsions and desires, the attraction of the light increased.

    The Gray Cub 2010

  • He experienced two great impulsions — to yield and to fight.

    The Makers of Fire 2010

  • Therefore this great work of charity must have other motives, ends, and impulsions.

    Religio Medici 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • You feel the wrath of my impulsions, and I never fully flesh them out.

    simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2005

  • It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservations.

    The Advancement of Learning 2003

  • 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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