All 5 Uses
motivate
in
In Cold Blood
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- The parents accepted what Nye implied-that parole violation and financial fraud were all that motivated his pursuit of their son.†
Chpt 3motivated = wanting to do something; or made someone want to do something
- But the prisoner had convinced himself that the young men, possibly motivated by a desire for adventure, meant to help him escape.†
Chpt 4
- The authors, as part of an appeals process, had examined four men convicted of seemingly unmotivated murders.†
Chpt 4 *unmotivated = not wanting to do somethingstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmotivated means not and reverses the meaning of motivated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Obviously, three of the murders Smith committed were logically motivated-Nancy, Kenyon, and their mother had to be killed because Mr. Clutter had been killed.†
Chpt 4motivated = wanting to do something; or made someone want to do something
- Appointed by a Federal judge, and working without compensation (but motivated by a hard-held opinion that the defendants had been the victims of a "nightmarishly unfair trial"), Jenkins and Bingham filed numerous appeals within the framework of the Federal court system, thereby avoiding three execution dates: October 25, 1962, August 8, 1963, and February 18, 1965.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(motivate) to make someone want to do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)