incitation
nounUK /ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French incitation.
1
The act of inciting or moving to action.
2
Obsolete Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
- A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC: