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Incite vs Ensue - What's the difference?

incite | ensue |

As verbs the difference between incite and ensue

is that incite is to rouse, stir up or excite while ensue is to follow (a leader, inclination etc.).

incite

English

Verb

(incit)
  • To rouse, stir up or excite.
  • The judge was told by the accused that his friends had to incite him to commit the crime.

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    ensue

    English

    Verb

    (ensu)
  • (obsolete) To follow (a leader, inclination etc.).
  • * 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.ii:
  • to ripenesse of mans state they grew: / Then shewing forth signes of their fathers blood, / They loued armes, and knighthood did ensew , / Seeking aduentures [...].
  • * Golding
  • To ensue his example in doing the like mischief.
  • *1603 , (John Florio), translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays , III.11:
  • *:Oh how many changes are like to ensue this reformation!
  • Give three freshmen six bottles of wine, and hilarity will ensue .

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