Incite vs Convince - What's the difference?
incite | convince |
To rouse, stir up or excite.
To make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.
* Atterbury
To persuade.
(obsolete) To overcome, conquer, vanquish.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To confute; to prove wrong.
* Francis Bacon
(obsolete) To prove guilty; to convict.
* Bible, John viii. 46
* Dryden
As verbs the difference between incite and convince
is that incite is while convince is to make someone believe, or feel sure about something, especially by using logic, argument or evidence.incite
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Verb
(incit)- The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.
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* ----convince
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Verb
(convinc)- Such convincing proofs and assurances of it as might enable them to convince others.
- His two chamberlains / Will I with wine and wassail so convince / That memory, the warder of the brain, / Shall be a fume.
- God never wrought miracle to convince' atheism, because his ordinary works ' convince it.
- Which of you convinceth me of sin?
- Seek not to convince me of a crime / Which I can ne'er repent, nor you can pardon.