incitement

• encitement

From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb). Equivalent to incite +‎ -ment.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/

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incitement (plural incitements)

1. 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.