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Значения термина cacoethes на английском

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An irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action.

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Использование термина cacoethes на английском
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The recovery of the Trimalchionian episode, and the subsequent pamphleteering would by no means eradicate this "cacoethes emendandi."
The Satyricon — Complete
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Among the rest she was seized with what we men call a cacoethes of the needle: "a raging desire" for work.
White Lies
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Stormed by an attack of his cacoethes scribendi, after those few blank days at Becket, Felix saw nothing amiss with his young daughter.
The Freelands
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And this result of her contacts with Courtier, this 'cacoethes volandi', and feeling of clipped wings, hurt her-asbeing forbidden hurts a child.
The Patrician
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If the reader will turn back to the end of the fourth number of these papers, he will find certain lines entitled, "Cacoethes Scribendi."
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
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Cacoethes через время