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incitement

noun

  1. defamatory, malicious, rushed incitement to hostility
  2. provocation
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/

noun

Etymology: From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.

  1. 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.”