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• n  an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
  the incitement of mutiny
• n  needed encouragement
• n  something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
• n  the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

• Yet Mao's aquatic incitement of China's youth failed to produce a new generation of revolutionaries.
• At private BNP rallies, Griffin, convicted in 1998 of incitement to racial hatred, warns adherents that Muslim men are plotting to defile underage British girls, peppering his .
• He added, "I attribute this to the general incitement and hate with which we have been contending for years in this community.

• incitation
• provocation
• exhortation

News & Articles

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• Postal worker charged with stealing cash from mail
  A Janesville woman is facing up to five years in prison if she’s convicted of stealing cash from a piece of mail, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A grand jury returned an incitement against Kristy Hollibush, 43, of Janesville, who is charged with stealing cash from an envelope. The indictment accuses her of stealing the cash on Sept. 25 from a piece of mail while she was working at the ...
  June 7, 2013 - WISC-TV Madison

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in USA Today
  Palestinians have strengthened their efforts on security, but they need to do more to stop incitement and to move forward with negotiations,Obama said. "Israelis have facilitated greater freedom of movement for the Palestinians and have...
• Mahmoud Abbas in Los Angeles Times
  I say in front of you, Mr. President, that we have nothing to do with incitement against Israel, and we're not doing that,Abbas said. "What we care about is to live in coexistence with Israel in order to bring about the independent...
• Ban Ki-moon in Reuters
  There is no justification for hate speech or incitement to violence,Ban said in a statement. "The right of free expression is not at stake here."