"jasm" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Apparently a variant of jism.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "text": "Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 350:",
          "text": "“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”\nFrank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”\n“Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”",
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          "ref": "2004 June 30, Elizabeth Cooper, Drusilla with a Million, Kessinger Publishing, page 197:",
          "text": "I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic when you’ve once been your own master. It’ll put jasm into a lot of men that have lost their nerve and only need some one to set them straight.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Zest for accomplishment; drive."
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        "(archaic, US, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive."
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      "glosses": [
        "Jazz."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(archaic) Jazz."
      ],
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  "word": "jasm"
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          "text": "Jeremy has the kind of jasm a junior exec needs to reach the top of the ladder in the corporate world.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1860, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Miss Gilbert's Career: An American Story, Charles Scribner's Sons, page 350:",
          "text": "“Yes, sir. No mistake about that. Oh! she's just as full of jasm!”\nFrank Sargent laughed again. “You've got the start of me,” said he. “Now tell me what ‘jasm’ is.”\n“Well, it’s a sort of word, I guess, that made itself,” said Cheek. “It’s a good one though—jasm is. If you’ll take thunder and lightning, and a steamboat and a buzz-saw, and mix ’em up, and put ’em into a woman, that’s jasm.”",
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          "text": "I don’t think there is anything more pitiful than a man, who has been in business for himself, to have to give up and say he is a failure. It hurts to be compelled to go into some one’s shop as a clerk or a mechanic when you’ve once been your own master. It’ll put jasm into a lot of men that have lost their nerve and only need some one to set them straight.",
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        "(archaic, US, slang) Zest for accomplishment; drive."
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        "Jazz."
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        "(archaic) Jazz."
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