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Incitation   Listen
noun
Incitation  n.  
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."





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"Incitation" Quotes from Famous Books



... words, voice of the tempter, song of the Sirens forbidden fruit, golden apple. persuasibility^, persuasibleness^; attractability^; impressibility, susceptibility; softness; persuasiveness, attractiveness; tantalization^. influence, prompting, dictate, instance; impulse, impulsion; incitement, incitation; press, instigation; provocation &c (excitation of feeling) 824; inspiration; persuasion, suasion; encouragement, advocacy; exhortation; advice &c 695; solicitation &c (request) 765; lobbyism; pull [Slang]. incentive, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... name, dignity, and learning boasted to me that he had been induced to a certain very important change in his faith by a strange and whimsical incitation, and one otherwise so inadequate, that I thought it much stronger, taken the contrary way: he called it a miracle, and so I look upon it, but in a different sense. The Turkish historians say, that the persuasion those of their nation ...
— The Essays of Montaigne, Complete • Michel de Montaigne


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