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incitement

/ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/

incitement noun: a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.

Noun

incitement (plural incitements)

  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.2019 April 12, Roger Cohen, “The Incitement in Israel That Killed Yitzhak Rabin”, in The New York Times

incitement meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

incitement in Hindi

incitement
बढ़ावा baṛhāvā
incitement, provocation
उत्तेजक uttejak

incitement in Tamil

தூண்டிவிடுதல் ஊக்குவித்தல், போராட்டம்

incitement in Urdu

شہ, شر, تحریک

incitement in Bengali

incitement; encouragement
উদ্দীপনা uddipôna
More languagesFewer languages
incitement in Malayalam
പ്രേരണ prēraṇa
incitement in Arabic
تَحْرِيض taḥrīḍ
incitement in Persian
تحریک tahrik

Forms of incitement

pluralincitements
alternative formencitement

Plural of incitement: incitements

Origin of incitement

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

Words formed from incitement

Questions about incitement

What does incitement mean?
Incitement means a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal way.
What is incitement in Hindi?
Incitement in Hindi is बढ़ावा (baṛhāvā), उत्तेजक (uttejak). See Incitement meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is incitement?
Incitement is a noun.
How do you pronounce incitement?
Incitement is pronounced /ɪnˈsaɪt.mənt/.
What is the plural of incitement?
The plural of incitement is incitements.

Words near incitement in the dictionary

  1. incite
  2. incited
  3. incitee
  4. incitees
  5. inciteful
  6. incitement
  7. incitements
  8. inciter
  9. inciters
  10. incites
  11. inciting

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incitement (page history and authors); उत्तेजक (Hindi) (page history and authors); incitement (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incitement (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); উদ্দীপনা (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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