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Incitation

//ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of inciting or moving to action. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…]."

  4. 4
    something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incitation.

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