incitory
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪnˈsaɪtəri/
Adjective
incitory (not comparable)
- Tending to incite.
- 1937 October, The American Review[1], volume 9, number 4, page 530:
- The controversy centers primarily upon the question whether art is incitory or cathartic. When we see a play or read a novel, does it influence us to put into action the unruly emotions and purposes we see portrayed, or does it, rather, purge us, through contemplation, of like purposes and emotions, latent in us?
- 1980, Andrew Handler, Blood Libel at Tiszaeszlar[2], Boulder, CO: East European Monographs, →ISBN, page 229:
- Lacking an organization of their own and exploiting its established reputation, a number of anti-Semitic politicians had used the Independence Party, to which they officially belonged, as a convenient soapbox for the dissemination of their incitory views.
- 2007, Randall P. Peerenboom, China Modernizes: Threat to the West or Model for the Rest?[3], New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
- Sautman argues 'the concept of "cultural genocide" as a stock in trade of Tibetan émigré ideology is meant to be provocative and incitory, rather than an intellectually appropriate conceptual framework for assessing PRC state policy as it affects culture in Tibet.
- 2015, Melanie Swan, Blockchain, Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly Media, →ISBN, page 75:
- In the cryptocurrency sense, demurrage can mean being deflationary (value losing) over time, thus incitory (stimulatory) in that it incites some form of action taking (i.e.; spending) in the shorter term to realize value before it is lost.