Inspire vs Motive - What's the difference?
inspire | motive |
To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration.
* Bible, Wisdom xv. 11
* Shakespeare
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To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens or exalts; to communicate inspiration to.
* Dryden
To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
* Harvey
To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
(archaic) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
* Alexander Pope
To spread rumour indirectly.
(obsolete) An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
*, III.2.1.ii:
*:there's something in a woman beyond all human delight; a magnetic virtue, a charming quality, an occult and powerful motive .
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
* 1947 , (Malcolm Lowry), Under the Volcano :
(obsolete, rare) A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
(legal) Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
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(music) A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move; as, a motive argument; motive power.
* 1658 , Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus , Folio Society 2007, p. 195:
Relating to motion and/or to its cause
As verbs the difference between inspire and motive
is that inspire is while motive is .inspire
English
Verb
(inspir)- He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul.
- Dawning day new comfort hath inspired .
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- Elders should inspire children with sentiments of virtue.
- Erato, thy poet's mind inspire , / And fill his soul with thy celestial fire.
- forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty
- Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing, / The breathing instruments inspire .
Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
* (inhale) expireDerived terms
* inspirerAnagrams
* ----motive
English
Noun
(en noun)- Many of them at first seemed kind to him, but it turned out their motives were not entirely altruistic.
- (Shakespeare)
- What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?
- No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best.
Death Walks in Eastrepps, passage=“Why should Eldridge commit murder?
- If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive .
Synonyms
* (incentive ) motivation * (creative works ) motifVerb
Synonyms
* motivateAdjective
(-)- In the motive parts of animals may be discovered mutuall proportions; not only in those of Quadrupeds, but in the thigh-bone, legge, foot-bone, and claws of Birds.
