“The conative, as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.”

“And, if approval is a conative rather than a cognitive attitude, we might say that she expressed a non-cognitive attitude.”

“Additionally, 'break' verbs may appear in the simple intransitive construction while 'cut' verbs may appear in the conative construction.”

“Although conational social support is important to sociocultural adaptation, it is not clear how social interaction influences adaptation.”

“It is such life that will sufficiently sanctify an individual to be able to enter into conational relations with those preternatural forces in chthonian existence.”