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conation|kəʊˈneɪʃən|
[ad. L. cōnātiōn-em, n. of action f. cōnārī to endeavour.]
†1. Attempt, endeavour. Obs.
1615Coke Rep. xi. 98 b, The matter..ought to be an act or deed, and not a conation or an endeavour.
2. Philos. The faculty of volition and desire; also (with a. and pl.) the product of this faculty.
1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. (1859) II. xl. 189 Phænomena of Desiring or Willing, or the powers of Conation. Ibid. (1877) II. 425 We find..the Feelings intermediate between the Cognitions and the Conations. 1882Ward Lester in Internat. Rev. May, A term is needed to express this general conception of voluntary action or the action of the conative faculty. For this the somewhat mediæval term conation, perhaps not used since Sir William Hamilton, is..strikingly appropriate. |