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How to pronounce “motive”
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Pronunciation guide for motive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of motive with real speech in context.
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- Primed to Perform
This framework we call the motive spectrum.
- Definition summary
- (obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. [14th–17th c.]
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How to pronounce motive
Primed to Perform
This framework we call the motive spectrum.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “motive”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting. [14th–17th c.]
- 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. [from 15th c.]
- (obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move. [15th–17th c.]
- (law) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour. [from 18th c.]
- (architecture, fine arts, music) Alternative form of motif.
- (British) A party, gathering, or get-together.
- (British) One's plans for the day or night.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
- [Adjective]
- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
- Relating to motion and/or to its cause
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