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UK
/ɪnsˈaɪtmənt/
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[ US /ˌɪnˈsaɪtmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsaɪtmənt/ ]
NOUN
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an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
the incitement of mutiny - the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
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needed encouragement
the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation
How To Use incitement In A Sentence
- This is essentially the key question in deciding on the appropriate basis for the criminal responsibility required for commission of the inchoate offences of incitement, conspiracy and attempt.
- Let's try using the laws on incitement to racial or religious hatred. The Sun
- And then the flesh, as it is the greatest retardment in good, it is the greatest incitement to evil, it is a bosom enemy, that betrays us to Satan, it is near us and connatural to us. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
- I hope his 2012 campaign ads avoid racial incitement by only saying “reelect the incumbent.” The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking ObamaCare Challenges Seriously
- That would be to condone incitement to violence. The Times Literary Supplement
- He writes of "her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God; her capableness of understanding; her aptnesse and willingnesse to recieve anie good impression, and also the spiritual, besides her owne incitements stirring me up hereunto. Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings
- Incitement to murder, by people living nominally under a country's law, should automatically lead to arrest.
- In addition to incitements and urgings from these right-wing political and mainstream media morons, there also came - and still are coming - the claims from the weirdest and dankest holes in the blogosphere, the deep rat warrens where readers of Newsmax, NewsBusters and other collections of neo-Nazi rants, can come together to rub vigorously each other's, um, reptilian fears and stroke each other's faux bravery as they plot their "counterrevolutionary" tactics and strategies. Mike Malloy: Poison
- There are calls for him to be charged with incitement to murder. The Sun
- Steve, surely incitement is an offence, regardless of whether anyone acted on that incitement? Who is pulling the strings? | Serendipity