motivity

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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

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

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

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

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