incendiarism
Americannoun
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the act or practice of an arsonist; malicious burning.
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inflammatory behavior; agitation.
noun
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the act or practice of illegal burning; arson
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(esp formerly) the creation of civil strife or violence for political reasons
Etymology
Origin of incendiarism
First recorded in 1665–75; incendiar(y) + -ism
Vocabulary lists containing incendiarism
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But, as fire after fire occurred and only Roman Catholic churches were destroyed, incendiarism was suspected.
From Time Magazine Archive
Allayed by the report were suspicions of contraband munitions and incendiarism.
From Time Magazine Archive
The airplane brought incendiarism back to its own.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent incendiarism, special police guards have been placed at every Catholic church in New York during Lent.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were, of course, many isolated cases of incendiarism, but the city did not suffer from any general and organized conflagration, as was the fate of Philadelphia and St. Louis and New Orleans.
From The Doomsman by Van Tassel Sutphen
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