Encouragement vs Incitation - What's the difference?
encouragement | incitation |
The act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity.
That which serves to incite, support, promote or advance, as favor, countenance, reward etc.; incentive; increase of confidence; as, the fine arts find little encouragement among a rude people.
The act of inciting or moving to action.
(obsolete) Something that incites to action; a stimulus or incentive.
*, II.29:
*:A notable man, great in yeares, in name, in dignity and in learning, vaunted himselfe unto me, that he was induced to a certaine most important change of his religion, by a strange and fantastical incitation .
As nouns the difference between encouragement and incitation
is that encouragement is the act of encouraging; incitement to action or to practice; as, the encouragement of youth in generosity while incitation is the act of inciting or moving to action.encouragement
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Alternative forms
* incouragement (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- All generous encouragement of arts. -Otway.
- To think of his paternal care, Is a most sweet encouragement to prayer. -Byron.