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incitement

[ in-sahyt-muhnt ]

noun

  1. the act of inciting.
  2. the state of being incited.
  3. motive; incentive.


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Other Words From

  • nonin·citement noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of incitement1

1585–95; incite + -ment; compare Latin incitāmentum
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Example Sentences

Though a much bigger undertaking, in this case, it is likely that such a process will be used to deal with issues of veracity, libel, incitement to violence, and so on.

We have to go after the people doing the incitement, the people who are very serious about doing these attacks, with the same intensity that we did with Al Qaeda.

From Time

This was an incitement of an insurrection that led to the deaths of people and threatened the lives of members of Congress.

From Vox

Parler—the rightwing social media platform that sought to carve out a niche for itself by refusing to moderate conspiracy theories, hate speech, and incitements to violence—is searching for a new home.

From Quartz

All the tech giants cited the site’s incitements to violence and lack of content moderation.

Among these are obscenity, defamation, fighting words, express incitement to unlawful conduct, and threats.

This is supposed to act as a deterrent, but may be an incitement.

Finding clips of violent incitement is a matter of only a few clicks online.

There have been reflexive attempts to associate some recent mass shooters with the right-wing politics of incitement.

There is no doubt that the right-wing's incitement against Arab MKs has an effect.

I suppose that to most men such a warning would be a direct incitement to make the attempt.

A score of causes might have caused this but Carson believed the incitement in that instance was the one most dreaded.

The look cityward is not always caused by the incitement of an uneasy, a commercial, or an ignoble impulse.

That incitement to be what he would seem to be, to become what she deems becoming, he fails to feel.

We shall perceive in this quiescence and obscurity only another cause of regret and another incitement to exertion.

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