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incite
/ ɪnˈsaɪt /
verb
- tr to stir up or provoke to action
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Derived Forms
- ˌinciˈtation, noun
- inˈciter, noun
- inˈcitement, noun
- inˈcitingly, adverb
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Other Words From
- in·cita·ble adjective
- in·citant adjective noun
- in·ci·ta·tion [in-sahy-, tey, -sh, uh, n, -si-], noun
- in·citer noun
- in·citing·ly adverb
- rein·cite verb (used with object) reincited reinciting
- unin·cited adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incite1
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Synonym Study
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Example Sentences
For example, the MTA prohibits ads that “incite or provoke violence.”
Though Rabinowitz muses that something like this would not only be impractical but also incite severe backlash.
Few people touch that nerve and incite so much passionate conversation than Dunham and Girls.
Robertson, they said, would “never incite or encourage hate.”
Russell Brand is trying to use comedy to incite political revolution.
This is the more annoying, as there are circumstances that particularly incite our curiosity.
And to incite the efforts of honest but unfortunate men, bankrupt laws equally useful to creditor and debtor were established.
It seems impossible to believe that these are the men whom Irish patriots incite to mutiny.
Thy countrymen are wild, fierce, and warlike: why not incite their martial passions in defence of thy doctrines?
Not one true believer whom the flesh does not again and again incite to impatience, anger, pride.
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