incitement

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
18
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/

Definition of incitement

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
    “Another element in the incitement, however unwitting, was political.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

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

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