motivity

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

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton

The name motivity of a system was proposed by Lord Kelvin in 1879 for this conception of available energy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

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

It carries in its hand, gathered into the simplicity of the causes that are not many, the secret of all motivity, the secret of all practice.

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

It is the mind in which this historical principle, this motivity which is not reason, is brought in contact with the opposing and controlling element as it had not been before.

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