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- The light seemed to fall with an increased hardness, examining and inciting the city with an unsparing violence, like the violence of love, and striking from the city's grays and blacks a splendor as of steel on steel.†
p. 142.8inciting = provoking
- People used the open door as an incitement—to stop, to listen, to stare, to knock, pretending that a friend of theirs had once lived in this very apartment, and did they know whatever had become of good old Tom or Nancy or Joanna?†
p. 318.7
- Her sex, which afforded him his entry, would nevertheless remain strange to him, an incitement and an anguish, and an everlasting mystery.†
p. 385.7 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(incite) provoke -- (arouse feelings, often leading to action)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)