incitation — ozdic

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noun

1

The act of inciting or moving to action.

2

Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.

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[…].

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Synonyms

noun — an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or i

incitement

noun — something that incites or provokes

incitement
provocation

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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 inc

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