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MOTIVE

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motive I. substantiv

1. motiv, clauză, raţiune;

driving motive motiv hotărâtor.

2. leit motiv.

motive II. adjectiv

motrice, motor, care pune în mişcare.

motive III. verb tranzitiv

1. a cauza.

2. a motiva.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“Miss Betsey Trotwood,” said the gentleman, “pray walk in. I was engaged for a moment, but you'll excuse my being busy. You know my motive. I have but one in life.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Sir Thomas would not hear of it; and Mrs. Norris's anger against Fanny was so much the greater, from considering her residence there as the motive.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I have now another motive for being glad that I can produce it.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

What motive could your friend have in going to Lord Mount-James?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“If his motives were innocent, why does he not explain them?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If he had another motive, I am sure it would never disgrace him.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She expected from other people the same opinions and feelings as her own, and she judged of their motives by the immediate effect of their actions on herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“She must have some motive, more powerful than appears, for refusing this invitation,” was Emma's conclusion.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And now I have to consider the motive of this singular crime.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if you think that he has acted from motives which are not criminal, and which he would wish to have known, then you cannot serve him better than by telling us the whole story.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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