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Definition of incitement in English: incitementnoun ɪnˈsʌɪtm(ə)ntɪnˈsaɪtmənt mass noun, often with infinitive The action of provoking unlawful behaviour or urging someone to behave unlawfully. this amounted to an incitement to commit murder Example sentencesExamples - His team talks prior to Lansdowne games were incitements to mayhem.
- The review is there as a guideline, as an incitement, or perhaps at times merely a provocation.
- American authorities say they are working on a directive that would ban hate speech and incitements to violence and create a system for registering publications to lend some order to the media landscape.
- Drink was their worst failing and the Duke of Wellington was not far wrong when he complained that it was one of the biggest and most dubious incitements to recruitment.
- Abetting describes any incitement or encouragement to do so.
Synonyms egging on, urging, goading, spurring on, motivation, persuasion, inducement instigation, encouragement, stirring up, whipping up, stoking up, kindling, fuelling, stimulation, provocation, arousing, rousing, fomentation literary enkindling Definition of incitement in US English: incitementnounɪnˈsaɪtməntinˈsītmənt often with infinitive The action of provoking unlawful behavior or urging someone to behave unlawfully. this amounted to an incitement to commit murder Example sentencesExamples - The review is there as a guideline, as an incitement, or perhaps at times merely a provocation.
- American authorities say they are working on a directive that would ban hate speech and incitements to violence and create a system for registering publications to lend some order to the media landscape.
- Drink was their worst failing and the Duke of Wellington was not far wrong when he complained that it was one of the biggest and most dubious incitements to recruitment.
- Abetting describes any incitement or encouragement to do so.
- His team talks prior to Lansdowne games were incitements to mayhem.
Synonyms egging on, urging, goading, spurring on, motivation, persuasion, inducement |