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incitation
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun incitation has 2 senses
- incitation(n = noun.motive) incitement, provocation - something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action; Array is a kind of mental energy, psychic energy
- incitation(n = noun.act) incitement - an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; "the incitement of mutiny" is a kind of arousal, rousing
has particulars: signal
Derived forms verb incite2, verb incite3, verb incite1
Derived forms verb incite2, verb incite3
CIDE DICTIONARY
incitation, n. [L. incitatio: cf. F. incitation.].
- The act of inciting or moving to action. [1913 Webster]
- That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. [1913 Webster]"The noblest incitation to honest attempts." [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
incitation
Motive
N motive, springs of action, wellsprings of action, reason, ground, call, principle, by end, by purpose, mainspring, primum mobile, keystone, the why and the wherefore, pro and con, reason why, secret motive, arriere pensee, intention, inducement, consideration, attraction, loadstone, magnet, magnetism, magnetic force, allectation, allective, temptation, enticement, agacerie, allurement, witchery, bewitchment, bewitchery, charm, spell, fascination, blandishment, cajolery, seduction, seducement, honeyed words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple, persuasibility, persuasibleness, attractability, impressibility, susceptibility, softness, persuasiveness, attractiveness, tantalization, influence, prompting, dictate, instance, impulse, impulsion, incitement, incitation, press, instigation, provocation, inspiration, persuasion, suasion, encouragement, advocacy, exhortation, advice, solicitation, lobbyism, pull, incentive, stimulus, spur, fillip, whip, goad, ankus, rowel, provocative, whet, dram, bribe, lure, decoy, decoy duck, bait, trail of a red herring, bribery and corruption, sop, sop for Cerberus, prompter, tempter, seducer, seductor, instigator, firebrand, incendiary, Siren, Circe, agent provocateur, lobbyist, impulsive, motive, suasive, suasory, persuasive, persuasory, hortative, hortatory, protreptical, inviting, tempting suasive, suasory, seductive, attractive, fascinating, provocative, induced, disposed, persuadable, spellbound, instinct with, smitten with, infatuated, inspired, by, because, therefore, from this motive, from that motive, for this reason, for that reason, for, by reason of, for the sake of, count of, out of, from, as, forasmuch as, for all the world, on principle, fax mentis incendium gloriae, temptation hath a music for all ears, to beguile many and be beguiled by one.
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