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UK
/ɪnsˈaɪtmənt/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsaɪtmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈsaɪtmənt/ ]
NOUN
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an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
the incitement of mutiny - the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion
- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
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needed encouragement
the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation
How To Use incitement In A Sentence
- This is essentially the key question in deciding on the appropriate basis for the criminal responsibility required for commission of the inchoate offences of incitement, conspiracy and attempt.
- Act covering incitement to murder. Times, Sunday Times
- American authorities say they are working on a directive that would ban hate speech and incitements to violence and create a system for registering publications to lend some order to the media landscape.
- the incitement of mutiny
- Although the boycott began after Beck's July 7 remarks about Obama's alleged racism, it was broadened by democrats. com into an attack on Fox News and what it calls the cable network's campaign of "outright hate-mongering and incitement of violence" following Obama's election. WordPress.com News
- Let's try using the laws on incitement to racial or religious hatred. The Sun
- The ordinary meaning of ‘incitement’ as adopted in the authorities is that it encompasses encouragement, persuasion or inducement.
- Ghoga said the incident was a result of what he described as an incitement campaign against him. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- A 48-year-old writer and poet using the pseudonym Li Hong, Zhang was arrested on 6 September in Ningbo, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, and was charged with “incitement to subvert the state’s authority.” September 2006
- It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.