Both Uses
motive
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Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports
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- See, when you're an evil, endlessly funded insane scientist, you have both the means and the motive to, say, suddenly gas a whole room of hostage bird kids.†
Part 2 *motive = reason (for doing something)
- Yeah, and I'm sure he had no ulterior motive for that!†
Part 3
Definitions:
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(motive as in: What is her motive?) a reason for doing something
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Less commonly, motive can refer to something that causes motion in an inanimate object. Even less commonly, it can refer to a distinctive feature in music, art, or literature.