incitation

From Middle French incitation.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪnsɪˈteɪʃ(ə)n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 29, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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 […].

From Latin incitātiō.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.si.ta.sjɔ̃/

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incitation f (plural incitations)

1. incitation

• “incitation” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).