Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or an instance of inciting; stimulation.
- noun Something that incites.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement.
- noun That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of inciting or moving to action.
- noun That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of inciting or moving to action.
- noun obsolete Something that incites to action; a
stimulus orincentive .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
- noun an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's called incitation à la haine (raciale, homophobe, sexiste...), and it deals with speeches or texts that encourage discrimination, violence against a given community, or the apology of crimes against humanity (sorry, that's literal translation).
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"In fact every time a ransom is paid it's an incitation for new candidates [and] it's also reinforcing the economy based on piracy in Somalia," he said.
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"In fact every time a ransom is paid it's an incitation for new candidates [and] it's also reinforcing the economy based on piracy in Somalia," he said.
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In that case, they should probably arrest themselves afterwards for incitation to violence.
Second day of student protests - how the demonstrations happened Adam Gabbatt 2010
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(The incitation to violence could be illegal, but Timpone hasn't bothered to report it to police.)
Blockshopper.com Outs Rich Homeowners, Sparking Glee and Anger 2010
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For a brief moment he rose above the odious web of incitation, fabrication, innuendo, attack, smear and dirty tricks that is now the standard Republican political campaign operation mode.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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Perhaps I am not tolerant of intolerant people, especially of Stephen Taylor who not only condones such behaviour/remarks/incitation, I think he seeks it!
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Even Western governments are still utterly incapable of properly distinguishing true incitation to violence and hate from ethnic pride, mild but nonviolent rebellion, and counterculture.
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This certainly seems like an incitation to violence.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Former Leader of the Southern Baptist Convention 2007
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"If we're not very careful, the whole campaign will assume this character of intolerance and incitation to hatred," he warned.
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