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Another word for incitement

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Noun

  1. Something that incites especially a violent response

      1. A sharp-pointed stick used in driving oxen
      2. An agent or means of prodding or urging; a stimulus.
      3. Any driving impulse; spur
      1. Something that incites.
      2. The act of inciting or moving to action.
      1. An act or instance of provoking
      2. (Emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
      3. Something that provokes; esp., a cause of resentment or irritation
      1. Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity.
      2. (Physiol., Psychol.) Any action or agent that causes or changes an activity in an organism, organ, or part, as something that excites an end organ, starts a nerve impulse, or activates a muscle
      3. An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
      1. Something that induces intense emotional distress, especially by evoking memories of past trauma.
      2. A similar device used to release or activate a mechanism.
      3. An act, impulse, etc. that initiates an action, series of events, etc.
    See also:

    cause

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Another word for incitement

Noun
      1. A motif in art, literature, or music.
      2. An emotion, desire, physiological need, or similar impulse that acts as an incitement to action.
      3. Some inner drive, impulse, intention, etc. that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way; incentive; goal
      1. Government spending designed to generate or increase economic activity.
      2. (Physiol., Psychol.) Any action or agent that causes or changes an activity in an organism, organ, or part, as something that excites an end organ, starts a nerve impulse, or activates a muscle
      3. An agent, action, or condition that elicits or accelerates a physiological or psychological activity or response.
      1. Something that provokes; esp., a cause of resentment or irritation
      2. An act or instance of provoking
      3. (Emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
    See also:

    incentive

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Sentence Examples

  • The incitement came, however, not from the people, but from the prince: it was in the light of court favour that the colleges of Bagdad and Nishapur first came to attract students from every quarter, from the valleys of Andalusia as well as the upland plains of Transoxiana.

  • The long-continued incitement to catabolism of the waking day thus of itself predisposes the nerve cells towards rebound into the opposite phase; the increased catabolism due to the day's stimuli induces increase of anabolism, and though recuperation goes on to a large extent during the day itself, the recuperative process is slower than, and lags behind, the disintegrative.

  • That arousing of the people by their sovereign and his call to them to defend their country--the very incitement which was the chief cause of Russia's triumph in so far as it was produced by the Tsar's personal presence in Moscow--was suggested to the Emperor, and accepted by him, as a pretext for quitting the army.

  • Such conditions were themselves incitement enough to a prompt redemption of the promise of parliamentary distinction, even without the restless spurring of ambition.

  • The Andrassy's old abuses continued: the muzzling of the press in the universal interests of Magyar nationalism, the imprisonment Suffrage of non-Magyar deputies for " incitement against Bill.

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