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To arouse; urge; provoke; encourage; spur on; goad; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as in to incite a riot. Also, generally, in Criminal Law to instigate, persuade, or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearly synonymous with abet. |
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Such an extreme, violent reaction is out of place in a modern world and can't be justified by references to exploitation or incitation. Couples could be separated, according to canon law, on seven conditions: mutual decision to take vows; heresy of one of the spouses; incitation to mortal sin; physical and verbal abuse; a vow to leave for the Holy Land on crusade; the danger of contracting a contagious disease; and adultery. Ortega was later to criticize Jean-Paul Sartre's engagement as "nihilistic" and an incitation to mindless activism, but it is only his enormous self-confidence that prevents him seeing that he does no better when he cheers on his faceless elites. |
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