motivity
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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 Hereward Carrington
They were appealing to a fictitious motivity, one not grounded in "the nature of things."
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry
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 Delia Bacon
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 Delia Bacon
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 Hamlin Garland
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