incitation

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French incitation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     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 […].

Translations

act of inciting or moving to action

• French: incitation (fr)
• Irish: spreagthacht f
• Portuguese: incitação f

French

Etymology

From Latin incitātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.si.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

incitation f (plural incitations)

1. incitation
   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎^[1]:

     En censurant l’essentiel de la loi dite « Avia », jeudi 18 juin, le Conseil constitutionnel a mis à bas un dispositif adopté en mai, destiné à imposer aux géants du numérique de retirer les incitations à la haine, à la violence et au terrorisme, ainsi que les injures à caractère raciste ou sexiste et les images pornographiques représentant des mineurs.

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Further reading

• “incitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.