motive
/ˈmoʊtɪv/ adjective C2- Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move · a motive argument· motive power
- Relating to motion and/or to its cause
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Probably some wise, inscrutable motive was to be served thereby.
But she had another and nobler motive for wishing to do well.
The distance is nothing, when one has a motive; only three miles.
“But what,” said she, after a pause, “can have been his motive?
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