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incitement

noun/ɪnˈsaɪtmənt/

B2CEFR level
38/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister

The offence of encouraging or urging others to commit a crime.

The pamphlets amounted to incitement to racial hatred, an offence in themselves regardless of any resulting violence.

Similar: instigation, provocation

Topic: Criminal law in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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