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From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (incentive; incitement), from incitō (urge; quicken; incite, verb). Equivalent to incite +‎ -ment.

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incitement (plural incitements)

  1. 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.

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