Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Previous motion or excitement to action.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Previous motion or excitement to action.

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  • noun previous motion or excitement to action

Etymologies

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pre- +‎ motion

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Examples

  • They requested an "immediate" premotion conference concerning their attempt to disqualify Mr. Morgenthau.

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  • And maybe this is the problem, people doing whatever they think will get them that premotion without thinking of the consequences. on December 4, 2006 at 11: 28 am | Reply extraspecialcopper

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  • Your physical premotion introduces God acting in you.

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  • People who have founded systems on the communication of God with man have said that God acts directly physically on man in certain cases only, when God grants certain particular gifts; and they have called this action “physical premotion.”

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  • Physical premotion is founded upon that subtle and truly Grecian principle, that if a thinking being can give himself an idea, he would augment his existence; but we do not, for our parts, know what is meant by augmenting our being.

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  • Physical premotion makes five propositions a matter of attention and occupation to God, which interest only some lay-sister, the sweeper of a convent; while we attribute to Him employment of the most simple and important description — the arrangement of the whole system of the universe.

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  • Physical premotion occupies the great supreme with all the changing vagaries which take place in the head of an individual

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  • We agree only so far in the system of physical premotion, that we are convinced we give ourselves nothing.

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  • The system includes that of “physical premotion,” but in the same manner as an immense wheel includes a small one that endeavors to fly off from it.

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  • Both the system of premotion and our own are abused, as depriving men of their liberty.

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