See motif on Wiktionary
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"english": "for motives that escape everyone, all logic, our appreciation",
"text": "pour des motifs qui échappent à tout le monde, à toute logique, à notre appréciation",
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},
{
"english": "For some motive that escapes me, some shit started pretending to be interested in my well-being.",
"text": "Pour un motif qui m’échappe, un certain merdeux s’est mis à feindre de s’intéresser à mon bien-etre.",
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"english": "Even though hunger and destitution tormented us sometime, and even almost always, nothing caused us as much torment as being witnesses to the unheard-of cruelties that my master exercised on the Christians. Every day, he made someone hang; they impaled that one, they cut off this one's ears, and this for so little stuff, or rather so much without motive, that the Turks themselves recognized that he only did harm for the sake of it, and because his natural temperament brought him to be the murderer of the whole human race.",
"ref": "1836, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XL, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume I, Paris: J[acques]-J[ulien] Dubochet et Cⁱᵉ, éditeurs, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "Bien que la faim et le dénûment nous tourmentassent quelquefois, et même à peu près toujours, rien ne nous causait autant de tourment que d’être témoins des cruautés inouïes que mon maître exerçait sur les chrétiens. Chaque jour il en faisait pendre quelqu’un ; on empalait celui-là, on coupait les oreilles à celui-ci, et cela pour si peu de chose, ou plutôt tellement sans motif, que les Turcs eux-mêmes reconnaissaient qu’il ne faisait le mal que pour le faire, et parce que son humeur naturelle le portait à être le meurtrier de tout le genre humain.",
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"Indonesian terms derived from Middle Dutch",
"Indonesian terms derived from Old French",
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"word": "bermotif"
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"word": "motif dasar"
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"word": "motif hiasan"
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"word": "motif intrinsik"
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"word": "corak"
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"word": "pola"
}
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