Incested vs Incented - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between incested and incented

is that incested is (incest) while incented is (incent).

(head)

(incest)

* 2009 , Antonino Ferro, The Analytic Field: A Clinical Concept - Page 206

Her erotic transference ultimately devolved into a revelation that she had been consistently incested by her brother

* 1994 , Interpretive Approaches to Interpersonal Communication, Kathryn Carter

I do not want anyone to feel that my lesbianism is a result of being incested.

* 2011 , Marvin Mengeling, Crows, Pete Rose, UFOs: And Other Pretty Pieces - Page 2

(head)

(incent)

(en verb)

(US) To provide an incentive to (a person or organization).

We need to incent people to innovate more.

* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=February 24, author=Damon Darlin, title=At Intuit, What Comes After Taxes?, work=New York Times citation

, passage=We try to incent people to do it earlier, which levels the load.}}

(US) To provide an incentive for (something).

We need to incent more innovation.

* Less common than incentivize at COCA. * Used relatively more than (incentivize) to refer to providing an incentive for an individual action.