INCITEMENT • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Incitement

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnsˈaɪtmənt/ Listen

noun

Incitement n.

The act of inciting.

That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. "From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage."

Synonyms: Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse; encouragement.

See images of 'Incitement'

Etymology of 'Incitement'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Incitement" Quotes from Famous Books

... no further incitement to make us urge on our steeds. Armitage and Long Sam, who were the best mounted of our party, leading, the latter being our guide. The country was wooded so that we could not see far ahead. Suddenly our guide turned ...

— Adventures in the Far West • W.H.G. Kingston

... animosity. This appearance was caused on the part of Captain D'Hubert by a rational desire to be done once for all with this worry; on the part of Captain Feraud by a tremendous exaltation of his pugnacious instincts and the incitement of wounded vanity. At last, dishevelled, their shirts in rags, covered with gore and hardly able to stand, they were led away forcibly by their marvelling and horrified seconds. Later on, besieged ...

— A Set of Six • Joseph Conrad

... the answer given by the Local Government Board to their deputation, considers the refusal to start public works to be a sentence of death on thousands of those out of work, and the recommendation to bring pressure to bear on the local bodies to be a direct incitement to violence; further, it will hold Mr. G. W. E. Russell and the members of the Government, individually and collectively, guilty of the murder of those who may die in the next few weeks, and whose lives would have been ...

— Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography • George William Erskine Russell

... symptoms of rebellion. Then the arid bigot accused her daughter of perfect insensibility. Rosalie knew her mother well enough to be sure that if she had thought young Monsieur de Soulas nice, she would have drawn down on herself a smart reproof. Thus, to all her mother's incitement she replied merely by such phrases as are wrongly called Jesuitical—wrongly, because the Jesuits were strong, and such reservations are the chevaux de frise behind which weakness takes refuge. Then the mother regarded ...

— Albert Savarus • Honore de Balzac

... And I was such a fool I didn't know it. But that's what I preached. For it is an incitement to disorder to proclaim one's self above obedience to what has been established as a law ...

— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

More quotes...