impulsion

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English impulsioun, from Old French impulsion, from Latin impulsio, impulsionem.

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Noun

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impulsion (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
    • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
      I wrought like a fiend, for I expected every moment to be swamped; and since I found I could not push the coracle directly off, I now shoved straight astern. At length I was clear of my dangerous neighbour, and just as I gave the last impulsion, my hands came across a light cord that was trailing overboard across the stern bulwarks.
  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.
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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin impulsiōnem.

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impulsion f (plural impulsions)

  1. impulse
  2. impulsion, drive, impetus
  3. (physics) electric pulse, momentum

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