incitation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action
noun an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating

Borrowed from Middle French incitation.

26.] we have need to be solicited and tickled by some such nipping incitation as this. — Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete, Michel de Montaigne
Height, with no suspicion of the incitation such a remark would be to the ardor of the beloved of many women. — Blue-grass and Broadway, Maria Thompson Daviess
Louisa then, taking and holding the fine handle that so invitingly offered itself, led the ductile youth, by that mastertool of his, as she stept backward towards the bed; which he joyfully gave way to, under the incitations of instinct, and palpably delivered up to the goad of desire. — Memoirs of Fanny Hill: A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749), John Cleland

incitement, provocation

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