Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of spirit; hot; vehement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Full of spirit; hot; vehement; resolute.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Resolute and full of vigor; vehement.

Etymologies

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From Latin animosus ("full of courage, bold, spirited, proud"), from animus ("courage, spirit, mind"); see animus.

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Examples

  • Mr. Moulton took the paper, deliberately adjusted his spectacles, and, having read it very leisurely (I wondered how those fiery creatures had the forbearance to stay quiet, but they did; I think they were hypnotized by my father-in-law's coolness), he said, in his weird French, "Vous voolly nos animaux!" which sounded like _nos animose_.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • But he only produced a gold piece, which he flourished in front of the spokesman, and asked if money would be any inducement to leave us _les animose_.

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • &c. what fury is that, saith [3101] Dr. Gilbert, satis animose, as Cabeus notes, that shall drive the heavens about with such incomprehensible celerity in twenty-four hours, when as every point of the firmament, and in the equator, must needs move (so [3102] Clavius calculates) 176,660 in one

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ne Regem metueret, edamfi forte auftemm òbver (umg eltèt vulhifli) fed animose & intrepide exponeret, qyod in mandads Kabéret. x f.

    Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657

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