motivity

Example Sentences

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Is it connected with the phenomena of exteriorization of sensitivity or motivity?

From The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal by Carrington, Hereward

The single passion cannot engross the large, many-passioned, complex nature, so rich and various in motivity, so large and comprehensive in its surveys—the single passion seeks in vain to subdue it to its single end.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

Here also seemed to be an unconscious corroboration of Albert de Rochas's experiments in the "externalization of motivity," as he calls it.

From The Shadow World by Garland, Hamlin

The history of human nature is glorious, even in its degeneracy, with the exhibition of this larger, nobler form of humanity asserting itself, triumphing over the intensities of the narrower motivity.

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia

They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton