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incitations

incitations is the plural of incitation.

Meaning of incitation

Noun

incitation (countable and uncountable, plural incitations)

  1. The act of inciting or moving to action.
  2. (obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
    • A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

Questions about incitations

What is incitations the plural of?
Incitations is the plural of incitation.

Words near incitations in the dictionary

  1. incitability
  2. incitable
  3. incitant
  4. incitants
  5. incitation
  6. incitations
  7. incitative
  8. incitatives
  9. incite
  10. incited
  11. incitee

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