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impulsion (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 impulsions)

1. The act of impelling or driving onward, or the state of being impelled; the sudden or momentary agency of a body in motion on another body; also, the impelling force, or impulse.
2. Influence acting unexpectedly or temporarily on the mind; sudden motive or influence; impulse.
   • 1581, Peter Martyr, edited by John Marbeck, A Booke of Notes and Common places, with their expostitions, collected and gathered out of the workes of divers singular Writers and brought Alphabetically into order, Thomas East, page 410:

     Farther, Chrisostome upon this place saith, that Paule when he thus writeth, doth in no wise denie the nature of the flesh, but exalteth it to a more higher dignitie, namelie, that it should rather obaie the impulsion of the spirite, than lust.

   • 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 369:

     Once they sit to talk, the Pilgrims lose the impulsion that has brought them so far, their confidence in their own crude strength.

関連する語

• impulse
• impulsive
• impulsor

参照

• “impulsion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “impulsion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.