mainspring
noun
- 1
The principal spring of a clockwork mechanism, which drives it by uncoiling.
- 2
The most important reason for something (Cf. spring "origin of something" (literary) (often in the plural) the springs of her ambition).
“My daughter is the mainspring of my life.”
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