motion (n.)
inner movement, inward prompting, natural impulse, imagining
AC II.iii.14[Soothsayer to Antony, of his prognostication] I see it in my motion [i.e. in my intuition]
AW III.i.13[Second Lord to Duke, of an outside observer] That the great figure of a council frames / By self-unable motion
JC II.i.64[Brutus alone] Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma
LLL IV.ii.68[Holofernes to Nathaniel and Dull, of his literary gift] full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions
MV V.i.86[Lorenzo to Jessica, of a man without music] The motions of his spirit are dull as night
Oth I.iii.327[Iago to Roderigo] we have reason to cool our raging motions
Oth I.iii.95[Brabantio to all, of Desdemona] A maiden ... / Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion / Blushed at herself
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