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Meanings of ostensible motive in English
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Usage of ostensible motive in English
1
Business with the steward was the ostensible motive.
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Nor was the ostensible motive simply a pretext.
3
In Pannonia, the ostensible motive was jealousy of the higher pay and easier terms of service of the Prætorian guard.
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The ostensible motive of his call in Gray's Inn was sufficient excuse for this following up of his brother's footsteps.
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For by now the civilizing mission, which was the ostensible motive of all their heroic adventures, would have become a rigid obsession.
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The Audience now assembled in the Capuchin Church was collected by various causes, but all of them were foreign to the ostensible motive.
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Had he other less ostensible motives for delay?
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But with these ostensible motives for that sojourn assigned by Thucydides, there was another more deep and latent.
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One great difficulty is to distinguish ostensible motives, or such as we acknowledge to ourselves, from tacit or secret springs of action.