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Grounds vs Incitement - What's the difference?

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Grounds is a related term of incitement.


As nouns the difference between grounds and incitement

is that grounds is (legal) basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce" or grounds can be (plural only) the sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds) while incitement is a call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.

grounds

English

Etymology 1

From

Noun

(grounds)
  • (legal) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce."
  • The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
    • Derived terms
    * groundskeeper * stomping grounds

    Etymology 2

    From (ground), past participle of (term)

    Noun

    (head)
  • (plural only) The sediment at the bottom of a liquid, or from which a liquid has been filtered (as in coffee grounds).

    • Anagrams

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    incitement

    English

    Alternative forms

    * encitement

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A call to act; encouragement to act, often in an illegal fashion.