incitement

incitement
n
1. instigation, provocation, fomentation, actuation, insistence, incitation; excitement, arousal, agitation, inflammation; stimulation, animation, invigoration, motivation, inspiration, vivifica-tion; encouragement, abetment, emboldenment; inducement, impulsion, obligation; persuasion, exhortation, influence, temptation, inveiglement, beguile-ment, enticement, blandishment.
2. urging, goading, spurring, prompting, prodding, pricking, poking, thrusting, pushing, driving, hounding, egging on; exciting, arousing, rousing, agitating, working up, stirring up, winding up, inflaming, enflaming, firing, firing up, enkindling; motivating, inspiring, rallying, awakening, vivifying, bestirring, enlivening, livening up; encouraging, abetting, emboldening, nerving, building up, bucking up; inducing, impelling, constraining, pressing, moving, forcing; persuading, exhorting, influencing, prevailing upon, swaying, coaxing, wheedling; tempting, luring, inveigling, beguiling.
3. stimulus, fillip, provocation, incentive, motive; press, goad, spur, prick, prod, jolt, jog, poke, thrust; impulse, urge, drive, push, itch, desire; dictate, call.

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