incitement
/ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/ noun
Forms incitements encitement
- noun 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.”
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Etymology
From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.
Webster’s 1913
- noun The act of inciting.
- noun That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke.
Etymology [Cf. F. incitement.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “incitement”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details