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Webster 1913 Edition


Incitation

Inˊci-ta′tion

,
Noun.
[L.
incitatio
: cf. F.
incitation
.]
1.
The act of inciting or moving to action.
2.
That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive.
The noblest
incitation
to honest attempts.
Tatler.

Webster 1828 Edition


Incitation

INCITA'TION

,
Noun.
[L. incitatio. See Incite.]
1.
The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement.
2.
Incitement; incentive; motive; that which excites to action; that which rouses or prompts.

Definition 2024


incitation

incitation

English

Noun

incitation (countable and uncountable, plural incitations)

  1. The act of inciting or moving to action.
  2. (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.29:
      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 [].

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Noun

incitation f (plural incitations)

  1. incitation