incitement
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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
[edit]incitement (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
[edit]a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion
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