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noun

Incitation n.

The act of inciting or moving to action.

That which incites to action; that which rouses or prompts; incitement; motive; incentive. "The noblest incitation to honest attempts."

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Etymology of 'Incitation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incitation" Quotes from Famous Books

... 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

Words linked to "Incitation" : rousing, incitement, arousal, provocation