exertion
noun
vigorous action or effort.
self-exertion
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a word derived from
exertion.
Example Sentences
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In the name of the General Board of Commissioners for the promotion of the political and other interest of the colored people of the United States and the Canadas, by self-exertion, I thank them.
From Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany
In holiness there is combined the Divine self-existence as a perfection of life, and the Divine self-exertion in the realizing a Godlike perfection of life in the world.
From Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy by Andrew Murray
His father through self-exertion had attained to the ministry, but had died early, and his widow being by birth a peasant, the children were brought up as farmers.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian by Alexander Lange Kielland
The time in my whole life when I felt I had gained the greatest victory by self-exertion was when, after weeks of labor, I was able to recite the Pater Noster in Latin.
From Life of Father Hecker by Walter Elliott
Now we shall get rid of the weight of dead men's thought, which has hitherto pressed so heavily on the living intellect that it has been incompetent to any effectual self-exertion.
From Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne
