The difference between Motive and Reason
When used as nouns, motive means an idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources, whereas reason means that which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
When used as verbs, motive means to prompt or incite by a motive or motives, whereas reason means to deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.
Motive is also adjective with the meaning: causing motion.
check bellow for the other definitions of Motive and Reason
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Motive as a noun (obsolete):
An idea or communication that makes one want to act, especially from spiritual sources; a divine prompting.
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Motive as a noun:
An incentive to act in a particular way; a reason or emotion that makes one want to do something; anything that prompts a choice of action.
Examples:
"synonyms: motivation"
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Motive as a noun (obsolete, rare):
A limb or other bodily organ that can move.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Motive as a noun (law):
Something which causes someone to want to commit a crime; a reason for criminal behaviour.
Examples:
"What would his motive be for burning down the cottage?"
"No-one could understand why she had hidden the shovel; her motives were obscure at best."
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Motive as a noun (architecture, fine arts):
A motif.
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Motive as a noun (music):
A motif; a theme or subject, especially one that is central to the work or often repeated.
Examples:
"If you listen carefully, you can hear the flutes mimicking the cello motive."
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Motive as a verb (transitive):
To prompt or incite by a motive or motives; to move.
Examples:
"synonyms: motivate"
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Motive as an adjective:
Causing motion; having power to move, or tending to move
Examples:
"a motive argument"
"'motive power"
"synonyms: moving"
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Motive as an adjective:
Relating to motion and/or to its cause
Examples:
"synonyms: motional"
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Reason as a noun (logic):
A cause: That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause. A motive for an action or a determination. An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation. A premise placed after its conclusion.
Examples:
"The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted."
"The reason I robbed the bank was that I needed the money."
"If you don't give me a reason to go with you, I won't."
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Reason as a noun (uncountable):
Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
Examples:
"Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues."
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Reason as a noun (obsolete):
Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
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Reason as a noun (mathematics, obsolete):
Ratio; proportion.
Examples:
"rfquotek Barrow"
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Reason as a verb (intransitive):
To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
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Reason as a verb (intransitive):
To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
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Reason as a verb (intransitive):
To converse; to compare opinions.
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Reason as a verb (transitive):
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
Examples:
"I reasoned the matter with my friend."
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Reason as a verb (transitive, rare):
To support with reasons, as a request.
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Reason as a verb (transitive):
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
Examples:
"to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan"
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Reason as a verb (transitive, with ''[[down]]''):
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
Examples:
"to reason down a passion"
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Reason as a verb (transitive, usually with ''[[out]]''):
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
Examples:
"to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon"