incitement

Noun

• the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion

• something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action

• needed encouragement
  • the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation
    

• an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating
  • the incitement of mutiny
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  exhortation , incitation , provocation