Incitement

//ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.

    "The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least."

  2. 2
    an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating wordnet
  3. 3
    the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion wordnet
  4. 4
    needed encouragement wordnet
  5. 5
    something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action wordnet

Etymology

From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.

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