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-ness
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motiveness
(
uncountable
)
(
archaic
)
Ability to
move
;
mobility
.
1828
, John Ballantyne,
An Examination of the Human Mind
, page
427
:
The lower animals can obviously associate with great readiness: and as to
motiveness
, they frequently discover a degree of agility to which man can make no pretensions.
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