incitement
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite + -ment.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editincitement (plural incitements)
- A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
- The sheriff was constantly goading me into shooting trespassers, which should surely count as incitement at the very least.
- 2019 December 4, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times[1]:
- Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.
- 2020 August 4, Charlie Warzel, “Is QAnon the Most Dangerous Conspiracy Theory of the 21st Century?”, in The New York Times[2]:
- In 2019, the F.B.I. cited QAnon as one of the dangerous conspiracy theories posing domestic terrorist threats to the United States and cited past incitements of violence from its adherents.
Translations
edita call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion
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