motiving

And through all the talk, through the busy routine of the place, in the men and women working in the hospital, there emerged always that something unseen, -- Idea, Will, Spirit, the motiving force of the whole.

Together Robert Herrick 1903

But your Lamia has taught you some subtle 'viperine' reasoning and motiving, for the turning down one street instead of another.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 1898

_motiving_, for the turning down one street instead of another.

The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Robert Browning 1850