All 4 Uses of
actuate
in
The House of Mirth
- But if you are actuated by the benevolent intention of protecting me from Bertha—I don't think I need your protection."†
Chpt 1.4
- It did not occur to her that Selden might have been actuated merely by the desire to spend a Sunday out of town: women never learn to dispense with the sentimental motive in their judgments of men.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Sacrifices of this nature are sometimes received with feelings as mixed as those which actuate them; and Mrs. Peniston remarked to her confidential maid that, if any of the family were to be with her at such a crisis (though for forty years she had been thought competent to see to the hanging of her own curtains), she would certainly have preferred Miss Grace to Miss Lily.†
Chpt 1.9
- She supposed her beautiful friend to be actuated by the same motive as herself—that sharpening of the moral vision which makes all human suffering so near and insistent that the other aspects of life fade into remoteness.†
Chpt 1.14
Definition:
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(actuate) to make a machine work or cause someone to act