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        "ˈmoʊtɪv"
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        "From Middle English motif, from Anglo-Norman motif, Middle French motif, and their source, Late Latin motivum (“motive, moving cause”), neuter of motivus (“serving to move”)."
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              "mean": "(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. \n1624,  Democritus Junior ,  The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 2, member 1, subsection ii:there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive."
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              "mean": "An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action. \n1947,  Malcolm Lowry,  Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock:Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.\n2007,  Biden, Joe,  Promises to Keep‎, New York: Random House, published 2008, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 110:“Your job here is to find the good things in your colleagues—the things their state saw—and not focus on the bad.”I said I understand.“And, Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know his motive.”\nSynonym: motivation"
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              "mean": "(obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move. \nc. 1602,  William Shakespeare,  “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :every joint and motive of her body"
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              "mean": "(law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. \nWhat would his motive be for burning down the cottage?\nNo-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.\n1931,  Francis Beeding,  “10/6”, in  Death Walks in Eastrepps:“Why should Eldridge commit murder?  There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd. ”"
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              "mean": "(architecture, fine arts) A motif."
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              "mean": "(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated. \nIf you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive."
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              "mean": "(transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.\nSynonym: motivate"
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              "mean": "Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move\na motive argument\nmotive power\n1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society 2007, p. 195:\nIn the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.\nSynonym: moving"
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              "mean": "Relating to motion and/or to its cause\nSynonym: motional"
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              "mean": "motive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G.  C. Merriam, 1913\nmotive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911\nmotive at OneLook Dictionary Search"
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