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An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.

An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.

A limb or other bodily organ that can move.

Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.

Example: No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.

To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.

Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move

Example: a motive argument

Relating to motion and/or to its cause