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conative
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conative, a. [See Conatus.].
Of or pertaining to conation. [1913 Webster]
"This division of mind into the three great classes of the cognitive faculties, the feelings, . . . and the exertive or conative powers, . . . was first promulgated by Kant." [1913 Webster]
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