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Inciter

noun
1.
Someone who deliberately foments trouble.  Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker.






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"Inciter" Quotes from Famous Books



... I her sister, The older, sedater, Mine own silent friend; Oh, may she never, Till life's lamp is quench'd, Turn away from me,— That noble inciter, Comforter,—Hope! ...
— The Poems of Goethe • Goethe

... because they have been punished for stealing grapes and stores, and just now they are rather excited because it has been proposed to banish Anastacio to a Mission where there are more soldiers,—he is regarded as the inciter of ...
— The Valiant Runaways • Gertrude Atherton

... the most dangerous classes in the world," said he, "is the drifting and friendless woman. She is the most harmless and often the most useful of mortals, but she is the inevitable inciter of crime in others. She is helpless. She is migratory. She has sufficient means to take her from country to country and from hotel to hotel. She is lost, as often as not, in a maze of obscure pensions and boardinghouses. She is a stray chicken in a world of foxes. When she is gobbled up she is hardly ...
— The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax • Arthur Conan Doyle

... relatives and friends, the particulars of the shocking affair which had compelled the Faculty to discipline Mr. Carrington; and she could but agree with her family that her happiness would rest upon insecure ground if trusted to the inciter and principal offender in such a terrible transaction. He was to forget her at once, as she ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) • Various

... too late, the imprudence of their conduct; Seraphia, the wife of Sirach, will be compelled to make an apology to her husband now, for he has so often reproached her with her partiality for the Galilean. The partisans of this fanatical man, this inciter of rebellion, pretended to be filled with compassion for all who looked upon things in a different light from themselves, and now they will not know where to hide their heads. He will find no one now to cast garments and strew olive-branches ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich

... already been seized as an inciter to insurrection, because he bade his disciples to sell their garments ...
— Historical Miniatures • August Strindberg



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