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1. (n.) nisus
a striving toward a particular goal or attainment; effort; impulse.
Etymology: (1690–1700; < L nīsus act of planting the feet, effort, der. of nīt(ī) to support or exert oneself)
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1. (noun) striving, nisus, pains, strain
an effortful attempt to attain a goal
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1. (noun) nisus
a striving; an effort; a conatus
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1. nisus
a Trojan youth who accompanied Æneas into Italy, and whose friendship for Euryulus is so pathetically immortalised by Virgil in the ninth book of the "Æneid."
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