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Webster 1913 Edition
Incitation
Inˊci-ta′tion
,Noun.
[L.
incitatio
: cf. F. incitation
.] 1.
The act of inciting or moving to action.
2.
That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive.
The noblest
incitation
to honest attempts. Tatler.
Webster 1828 Edition
Incitation
INCITA'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of inciting or moving to action; incitement.2.
Incitement; incentive; motive; that which excites to action; that which rouses or prompts.Definition 2024
incitation
incitation
English
Noun
incitation (countable and uncountable, plural incitations)
- The act of inciting or moving to action.
- (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.29:
- A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation […].
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.29:
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