pulsion

Noun

(plural pulsions)

(now rare) The act of driving forward; propulsion. [from 17th c.]
(psychoanalysis) A subconscious drive or impulse. [from 20th c.]

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From French pulsion.

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When Filippo Strozzi, and above Second all his wife, threw their influence in the scales against expulsion the Medici, and the magistrates declared for their ex of the pulsion from power, Passerini, Ippolito and Alessandro Medici left Florence (17th of May 1527).

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