Definition of "motiving" []

• Present participle of motive. (verb)

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• "And through all the talk, through the busy routine of the place, in the men and women working in the hospital, there emerged always that something unseen, -- Idea, Will, Spirit, the motiving force of the whole."
• "But your Lamia has taught you some subtle 'viperine' reasoning and motiving, for the turning down one street instead of another."
• "_motiving_, for the turning down one street instead of another."