incendiarism
- n malicious burning to destroy property
- Suspicious citizens immediately linked the Capitol fire with that at the White House offices fortnight ago, spoke darkly of incendiarism.
- To prevent incendiarism, special police guards have been placed at every Catholic church in New York during Lent.
- While the suspicion of incendiarism was making big black headlines, the chief of the Havana Port Police advanced this idea: "The Morro Castle fire seems to have been the work .