All 4 Uses of
incite
in
Gone with the Wind
- Occasionally an old man's treble voice begged for news, and instead of inciting the crowd to babbling it only intensified the hush as they heard the oft-repeated: "Nothing on the wires yet from the North except that there's been fighting."†
Chpt 2.14
- What are you up to inciting mutiny and insubordination?†
Chpt 3.17 *
- And thanks to the incitement of the Freedmen's Bureau, negroes could always be found who were willing to bring accusations.†
Chpt 4.37
- Now they had not only the Bureau agitators and the Carpetbaggers urging them on, but the incitement of whisky as well, and outrages were inevitable.†
Chpt 4.37
Definition:
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(incite) provoke action -- often violent action