All 3 Uses
motivate
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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- What saved him from the wrath of everyone around him was partly an unwillingness to give any support to the enemies of the college, but also partly a begrudging understanding that all of his troublemaking was ultimately motivated by a mandate they were never free from themselves: the mandate to speak the rational truth.†
Part 2motivated = wanting to do something; or made someone want to do something
- He'd no longer be a grade-motivated person.†
Part 3
- He'd be a knowledge-motivated person.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(motivate) to make someone want to do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)