Synonyms for impulsion:
noun force
noun requirement to obey; implementation of rule(s)
noun stimulus
noun tendency, practice
noun stimulus, force
noun drive, resolve
noun throb, stimulus
noun goal
noun ambition, inspiration
noun forward movement
Examples of uses:
Ethnographic studies of the suburbs indicate a cultural impulsion toward overt displays of status.
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Corpus name: OpenSubtitles2018. License: not specified. References: http://opus.nlpl.eu/OpenSubtitles2018.php, http://stp.lingfil.uu.se/~joerg/paper/opensubs2016.pdf
Nor was this literary impulsion entirely without fruit-bearing.
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Title: A Cursory History of Swearing, author: Julian Sharman, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34179/34179-h/34179-h.htm
The editors of the National Magazine had given a new impulsion to my song—and a damned bad one.
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Title: Tramping on Life, author: Harry Kemp, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15415/15415-h/15415-h.htm
Thus, then, the exclusive action of sensuous impulsion has for its necessary consequence the narrowest limitation.
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Title: The Aesthetical Essays, author: Friedrich Schiller, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6798/6798-h/6798-h.htm
Under impulsion of the Arranger of Inanities the pomaded princes next began their inspection of the buildings.
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Title: Instigations, author: Ezra Pound, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40852/40852-h/40852-h.htm
He talks himself into passion, gives himself that impulsion which then bears others along with him.
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Title: mile Verhaeren, author: Stefan Zweig, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35387/35387-h/35387-h.htm
The carriage had eight wheels, two of which were large and gave the impulsion.
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Title: Automobile Biographies, author: Lyman Horace Weeks, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41891/41891-h/41891-h.htm
Why should we be confined to employ only the power of impulsion?
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Title: Buffon's Natural History, Volume II (of 10), author: Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/45602/45602-h/45602-h.htm
Under this impulsion, the tribunals became exceedingly lenient, frequently exercising the power left to them of suspending cases.
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Title: A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4, author: Henry Charles Lea, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/44209/44209-h/44209-h.htm
The electrons, positive as well as negative, undergo then a mechanical impulsion by the action of these different fields.
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Title: The Foundations of Science: Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, Science and Method, author: Henri Poincar, url: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39713/39713-h/39713-h.htm
