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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L.]

Connection; tie.

Man is doubtless one by some subtile

nexus

. . . extending from the new-born infant to the superannuated dotard.

De Quincey.

See also: nexus and nexûs

nexūs pl

(philosophy, rare) plural of nexus
- 1978, Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, edited by David Ray Griffin and Donald W. Sherburne, page 103:
  A structured society consists in the patterned intertwining of various nexūs with markedly diverse defining characteristics.