All 3 Uses
motive
in
Hunger Games Book #3 (Mockingjay)
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- But a man named Dalton, a District 10 refugee who'd made it to 13 on foot a few years ago, leaked the real motive to me.†
Chpt 1motive = reason (for doing something)
- It follows that any deviance from her mission, in either motive or deed, will be viewed as a break in this agreement.†
Chpt 4 *
- Wondering why he even bothered to dissect its motives.†
Chpt 7motives = reasons for doing something
Definitions:
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(1)
(motive as in: What is her motive?) a reason for doing something
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(2)
(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.