| 单词 | of one's own motive will |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof one's own (free) motive will 4. Originally Scottish. That initiates action; that causes or is the reason for something. In early Scottish use chiefly in †of one's own (free) motive will: of one's own volition (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [adjective] motive1520 motivational1931 1520 Protocol Bk. J. Foular (1930) II. 72 And thair the said David Wichtman uncoakit or compellit bot of his awin fre motif will [etc.]. 1569 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 684 Bayth the partiis comperand personalie, of thair awin motive willis. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 43v I think the lufe that cummis on will motiue, It is far mair till allow [etc.]. 1650 T. Hobbes Humane Nature 4 Of the powers of the Mind there be two sorts, Cognitive and Imaginative, or Conceptive and Motive. 1655 in Rothesay Town Council Rec. (1935) I. 4 Voluntarlie of hir awin frie motive will upone proffitabill and foirsein causes. 1674 in J. M. Beale Hist. Burgh & Parochial Schools Fife (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. of Edinb.) (1953) 184 He is na wayes obleidged to doe, except of his owen frie motive will. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. iii. 100 The same motive force appears in trade. 1871 Atlantic Monthly Nov. 1361 The vanity of saying to human audacity, curiosity,—the great motive energy of our Anglo-Saxon race, by whatever names we call it,—that it shall..go thus far and no farther. 1903 S. J. Duncan Mother in India in Pool in Desert iv. 84 The motive spring of everything she says and does is so direct. 1991 German Hist. 9 291 Nor did he [sc. Hansemann] have any sympathy for Hegelians, left or right, who claimed to have discovered the motive force of world history. < as lemmas |
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