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1. An act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
   "the incitement of mutiny"
   - incitation
    
2. Needed encouragement
   - provocation
    
3. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
   - incitation, provocation
    
4. The act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
   - exhortation

Derived forms: incitements

See also: incite

Type of: arousal, encouragement, mental energy, persuasion, psychic energy, rousing, suasion

Encyclopedia: Incitement