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Definition of Incitation

1. Noun. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.

2. Noun. An act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating. "The incitement of mutiny"

Definition of Incitation

1. n. The act of inciting or moving to action.

Definition of Incitation

1. Noun. The act of inciting or moving to action. ¹

2. Noun. (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incitation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incitation

incisura thyroidea superior incisura tragica incisura trochlearis incisura tympanica incisura ulnaris incisura umbilicalis incisura vertebralis incisurae incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi incisurae santorini

incisure incisures incitable incitant incitants incitation (current term) incitations incitative incitatives incite

incited inciteful incitement incitements inciter inciters incites inciting incitingly incitive

Literary usage of Incitation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1780)
"There are two terminations of incitation ; ift, ... On the contrary, the lefs incitation has been produced, ..."

2. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1853)
"Nor can there be a greater incitation to obedience, than the consideration of the nature of his government. Subject we must be, whether we will or no : but ..."

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