All 5 Uses
motivate
in
What They Fought For - 1861-1865
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- As this letter suggests, punishment for treason and a determination to "clean out" the Rebels, whom they held responsible for starting the war, motivated many northern soldiers.†
p. 40.7motivated = wanting to do something; or made someone want to do something
- It was the visceral counterpart of retribution for invasion and destruction that increasingly motivated Confederate soldiers.†
p. 41.8 *
- Many of the conscripts, substitutes, and bounty men who made up an increasing proportion of both armies from 1863 on were motivated marginally if at all by ideology or patriotism.†
p. 42.5
- Herrenvolk democracy—the equality of all who belonged to the master race—was a powerful motivator for many Confederate soldiers.†
p. 52.8motivator = someone or something that makes someone want to do something
- If some of them later forgot this, there is no better way to recover what motivated them from 1861 to 1865 than to read their letters and diaries written in the immediacy of experience.†
p. 69.4motivated = wanting to do something; or made someone want to do something
Definitions:
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(1)
(motivate) to make someone want to do something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)