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Definition of Incitement

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

2. Noun. Needed encouragement. "The result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"

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

4. Noun. The act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion.

Definition of Incitement

1. n. The act of inciting.

Definition of Incitement

1. Noun. A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incitement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incitement

incisurae incisurae cartilaginis meatus acustici externi incisurae santorini incisure incisures incitable incitant incitants incitation incitations

incitative incitatives incite incited inciteful incitement (current term) incitements inciter inciters incites

inciting incitingly incitive incito-motor incito-motory incivil incivilities incivility incivilization incivilly

Literary usage of Incitement

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

1. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"incitement to crime and violence.—Freedom of speech finds, however, its limit in incitement to crime ami violence. By the principles of the common law, ..."

2. The Police Power, Public Policy and Constitutional Rights by Ernst Freund (1904)
"incitement to crime and violence.—Freedom of speech finds, however, its limit in incitement to crime anil violence. By the principles of the common law, ..."

3. A Digest of the Criminal Law (crimes and Punishments) by James Fitzjames Stephen (1887)
"incitement TO COMMIT A CRIME. 2 EVERY one who incites any person to commit any crime commits a misdemeanor, whether the crime is or is not committed. ..."

4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1837)
"This cheering incitement, the genial sunshine of approbation, has at all times promoted the cultivation of literature in small republics rather than large ..."

5. The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States by United States Dept. of State, Francis Wharton, John Bassett Moore (1889)
"Your excellency must perceive that his arrangements will greatly depend upon my communication ; and therefore you will need no incitement to transmit to me ..."

6. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1895)
"incitement to murder by a slave.— inciting » ' We have been truly informed that a certain man, by murder his the instigation of the devil, said to another ..."

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