incitement
noun/ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/
Etymology From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.
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A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
- The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
- Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times:
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- In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.2020 April 8, Charlie Warzel, “Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?”, in The New York Times:
- Derived terms
- nonincitement