Incitation
//ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act of inciting or moving to action. countable, uncountable
- 2 an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating wordnet
- 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 something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action wordnet
Example
More examples"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[…]."
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French incitation.
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