incitement
/ɪnˈsʌɪtm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun, often with infinitive]
The action of provoking unlawful behaviour or urging someone to behave unlawfully: this amounted to an incitement to commit murder...
- Abetting describes any incitement or encouragement to do so.
- The review is there as a guideline, as an incitement, or perhaps at times merely a provocation.
- American authorities say they are working on a directive that would ban hate speech and incitements to violence and create a system for registering publications to lend some order to the media landscape.
Synonyms
egging on, urging, goading, spurring on, motivation, persuasion, inducement;
instigation, encouragement, stirring up, whipping up, stoking up, kindling, fuelling, stimulation, provocation, arousing, rousing, fomentation
literary enkindling