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Incitement
//ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt// noun
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Noun
- 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 an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating wordnet
- 3 the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion wordnet
- 4 needed encouragement wordnet
- 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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