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Incitement

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The act of inciting.

n. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The act of inciting; instigation.

n. That which incites the mind or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse; spur; stimulus; encouragement.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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

n. the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

n. needed encouragement

n. an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating

Word Usage

"Although the resolution used the term incitement, rather than indirect incitement, its references to justification and glorification suggested a broad understanding of the term."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rousing arousal

Cross Reference

incentive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

encouragement incentive motive stimulus spur

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

excitement indictment

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

inducement provocation impetus incentive enticement