Definitions of motive
n. - That which moves; a mover. 2
n. - That which incites to action; anything prompting or exciting to choise, or moving the will; cause; reason; inducement; object. 2
n. - The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading. 2
n. - That which produces conception, invention, or creation in the mind of the artist in undertaking his subject; the guiding or controlling idea manifested in a work of art, or any part of one. 2
a. - Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power. 2
v. t. - To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move. 2
The word "motive" uses 6 letters: E I M O T V.
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