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n. - An act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; The act of exhorting; Needed encouragement; Something that provokes.

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  • Their concept of incitement is informed by recent tragedies.
  • Steve, surely incitement is an offence, regardless of whether anyone acted on that incitement?
  • One is, if this is speech, then he ` s doing what everybody knows is called incitement, which is a very big exception to free speech.
  • Among them is Adeeb Abu Rahma, who has been held in detention for more than four months under a charge of 'incitement' - a euphemism for organizing demonstrations.
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