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Nisus
Nisus meaning
A mental or physical effort to attain a specific goal; a striving. | The periodic procreative desire manifested in the spring by birds, etc. | The contraction of the diaphragm and abdominal muscles to evacuate faeces or urine.
Example sentences (3)
Minos attacked Megara but Nisus knew he could not be beaten because he still had his lock of crimson hair.
Nisus died and Megara fell to Crete.
Nisus was King of Megara, and he was invincible as long as a lock of crimson hair still existed, hidden in his white hair.