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incite
(redirected from incitation)

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incite someone
to something to excite or provoke someone to something. The radicals tried to incite the students to violence. The students were incited to violent behavior by the lecturer.


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Such an extreme, violent reaction is out of place in a modern world and can't be justified by references to exploitation or incitation.
Couples could be separated, according to canon law, on seven conditions: mutual decision to take vows; heresy of one of the spouses; incitation to mortal sin; physical and verbal abuse; a vow to leave for the Holy Land on crusade; the danger of contracting a contagious disease; and adultery.
Ortega was later to criticize Jean-Paul Sartre's engagement as "nihilistic" and an incitation to mindless activism, but it is only his enormous self-confidence that prevents him seeing that he does no better when he cheers on his faceless elites.
 
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