incitation
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French incitation.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
incitation (countable and uncountable, plural incitations)
- The act of inciting or moving to action.
- (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 edit
act of inciting or moving to action
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French edit
Etymology edit
From Latin incitātiōnem.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
incitation f (plural incitations)
- 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 edit
- “incitation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.