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PURPOSES |
Motives |
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REASONS |
Motives |
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MISGUIDED |
Prompted by wrong motives |
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HIDDEN AGENDAS |
Ulterior motives for abstruse schedules |
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HIDDENAGENDAS |
Ulterior motives for abstruse schedules |
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MOTIVITY |
The quality of being influenced by motives. |
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DISINTEREST |
To divest of interest or interested motives. |
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PURITY |
Freedom from any sinister or improper motives or views. |
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MOTIVE |
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move. |
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PRUDENTIALIST |
One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential
motives. |
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MORTIFY |
To practice penance from religious motives; to deaden
desires by religious discipline. |
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BALANCE |
To fluctuate between motives which appear of equal
force; to waver; to hesitate. |
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LAUDABLE |
Worthy of being lauded; praiseworthy; commendable; as,
laudable motives; laudable actions; laudable ambition. |
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IRRELIGIOUS |
Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious
motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impious. |
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DUCTILE |
Easily led; tractable; complying; yielding to motives,
persuasion, or instruction; as, a ductile people. |
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EQUILIBRIUM |
A balancing of the mind between motives or reasons,
with consequent indecision and doubt. |
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URGE |
To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives,
arguments, persuasion, or importunity. |
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WRONGLY |
In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss;
as, he judges wrongly of my motives. |
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HIGH |
Elevated in character or quality, whether moral or
intellectual; preeminent; honorable; as, high aims, or motives. |
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SELFISH |
Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human
action are derived from love of self. |
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DETERMINISM |
The doctrine that the will is not free, but is
inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. |
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SELF-EXAMINATION |
An examination into one's own state, conduct, and
motives, particularly in regard to religious feelings and duties. |
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MOVE |
To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to
rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. |
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DISTRACT |
To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of
motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. |
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SUSPECTFUL |
Apt to suspect or mistrust; full of suspicion;
suspicious; as, to be suspectful of the motives of others. |