Mainspring is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MAINSPRING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the chief spring in a mechanism esp. of a watch or clock
• the main agent of motivation
• the principal spring in a watch, clock, or other mechanism.
• the chief spring in a mechanism especially of a watch or clock
• The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
• the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism

Words related to MAINSPRING

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Words that contain MAINSPRING

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How to use MAINSPRING in a sentence

• MURRAY took the party to Crystal Brook, Shanty Brook, Mainspring Brook, Tenement Brook, and more little mountain gutters of the kind than you could count on your fingers and toes.
• The mainspring of her early life was to please, and of her later life to make people happy.
• In losing this friend of thirty years Madame Recamier felt that the mainspring of her life was broken.
• Telegraph wires radiate like cobwebs from the chamber of the main-spring, and carry intelligence of all that is going on in the houses and streets.
• She did not find it quite easy to make nothing of all this matter, which had been the main-spring of her effort since her father died.
• She merely said she was glad he was acting so sensibly about it, and that if she was the mainspring of that action she was proud.
• Nothing daunted, Fabrice proceeded patiently to cut a peep-hole in the shutter by aid of the mainspring of his watch.
• Hamilton was for the next two years the mainspring of Indian hostility to the Americans in the northwest.
• I suspect that the mere wishes of the special interests, although they have been the mainspring of much public action for many years, have begun to lose their compelling power.
• She had reminded him again and again in deft but none the less positive terms that she was keeping a finger on the mainspring of any advantage that came her way.
• By adroitly using his good fortune, SAUNDERS accumulated a pile of most egregious testimonials, and these he regarded as the mainspring of success in life.
• All of this knowledge, Kit Carson, the mainspring of this little party, was well possessed of, and, as a matter of business, guided himself and men in a direct and safe course.
• Love, hatred, and revenge, had alternately swayed his breast, and formed the main-spring of his actions.
• Meanwhile, the other boy grew up in his quiet home, but death came there as well as to Brackenhill, and seemed to take the mainspring of the household in taking Sarah Thorne.
• He had more than average ability, and that of a kind not often found in the provinces, and rancor was the mainspring of his power.
• She who will be the more humble, the more closely united to Jesus, and the more faithful in making love the mainspring of every action.
• The self-subordination of socialism would be as deadening as the self-surrender of fatalism to that will-power which must ever be the mainspring of a play to move the multitude.
• In these games and what was connected with them I detected the mainspring of the moral strength which animated the pupils and the young people in the institution.
• To imagine a character without feeling and will would be like thinking a watch without a mainspring.
• To hate is to struggle and that is the mainspring of action.
• The people of the duchies were desirous to be identified more with Germany, and this was, notwithstanding other pretences, the main-spring of the revolt.
• The mainspring of the Revolution was worn-out by clumsy handling, and the application of the laws took the impress of circumstances instead of controlling them.
• Third, religion must be the mainspring and source of love in the world, for religion is the revelation of the will of God, the divine fundamental of which is love.
• It was rather like the obscure movement of a mainspring, setting into motion even the remotest wheel of a mechanism.
• I then enjoyed robust health, the main-spring of scepticism.
• Unless one is under his magic spell, it is impossible to understand its mainspring, although it is easy to feel its effects.
• His first public act after his accession was to join in the coalition against Napoleon, and dislike of Napoleon was the main-spring of his policy.
• A man of the ranks, without any education, his courage had been the sole mainspring of his military promotion, and sound sense had taken the place of brilliancy.
• A watch will not run without the proper regulation of the mainspring.
• In the first he works on the assumption that sympathy is the mainspring of human conduct.
• The mainspring of all this machinery was the writer, or, as we call him, the scribe, across whom we come in all grades of the staff.
• Moreover, the personal inclinations and interests naturally would and ought to remain the mainspring of economic action.
• Selfishness, self-interest, or otherwise self-aggrandizement, is the mainspring of all our actions if we are devoid of love to God and man.
• She was an idealist, impelled by some controlling emotion which was the mainspring of her life.
• Nationality is to political life what personality is to mental life, the mainspring, namely, of the mechanism.
• The Prophet Zechariah came to the front, although quite a young man, and became the mainspring of the renewed activity in building the Temple.

Similar words containing MAINSPR without suffix ing

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