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incitement
What does incitement mean?
incitement (noun): an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you pronounce incitement?
/ɪnˈsaɪtmənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does incitement come from?
From French incitement, from Latin incitāmentum (“incentive; incitement”), from incitō (“urge; quicken; incite”, verb).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to incitement
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets
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an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
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a smallness in size or amount that is insufficient; meagerness, dearth
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a small flaw which spoils the appearance of something, a stain, a spot
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