incite
verb (used with object)
to stir, encourage, or urge on; stimulate or prompt to action.
incitation
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a word derived from
incite.
Example Sentences
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The Brazilian Volleyball Confederation said in a statement it “repudiates any kind of violence or incitation to violent action.”
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Between these voices of reason and incitation, between these two seemingly different men, lie 22 years of power and five U.S. presidents.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 26, 2022
"The film was never intended as a stigmatization of the banlieue, nor an incitation to violence, nor above all, as an underhanded way to deliver a racist message," they stated.
From Time Magazine Archive
The incitation passes to the hippocampus, where it is built up into an emotional process.
From Time Magazine Archive
The great feature of the third quarter of the century was the conception and execution of the Wagnerian music-drama, with its wealth of sense incitation and its somber appeal to accumulated experiences of the race.
From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
