exertion

exertion
(entrée créée par le supplément)
(è-gzèr-sion) s. f.
Action de déployer, de mettre en jeu (c'est un mot anglais qui commence à s'introduire en français).
   Les produits de l'activité humaine sont tous, au fond, de même nature et de qualité égale, consistant en une exertion de force et une manifestation d'idée, PROUDHON les Majorats littéraires, p. 17 (Paris 1868)..
   Angl. exertion, du latin exserere, mettre hors de, de ex, hors, et serere, semer, disposer en lignes (voy. série).

Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré. . 1872-1877.

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