motion
noun
the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
self-motion
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a word derived from
motion.
Example Sentences
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Matter has then the power of self-motion; and nature, to act, has no need of a mover, whose pretended essence would hinder him from acting.
From Good Sense by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
But self-motion has consequences as much as any other motion.
From Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd
Let me ask another question: What is the name which is given to self-motion when manifested in any material substance?
From Laws by Benjamin Jowett
To this all things By Him created, or by Nature made, As to a central Sea, self-motion brings.'
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by John Morley
The immanence of things in the Ideas, or the partial separation of them, and the self-motion of the supreme Idea, are probably the forms in which he would have interpreted his own parable.
From Statesman by Plato
