an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating; "the incitement of mutiny"

needed encouragement; "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"

In English criminal law, incitement is an anticipatory common law offence and is the act of persuading, encouraging, instigating, pressuring, or threatening so as to cause another to commit a crime.

The act of inciting.

the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse.

something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action