Instigate vs. Incite — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Instigate and Incite
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Instigate
To initiate or bring about, often by inciting
Instigate a public discussion of the issue.
Instigate an uprising.
Incite
Encourage or stir up (violent or unlawful behaviour)
They conspired to incite riots
Instigate
To urge on; goad
Tried to instigate the people to revolt.
Incite
To provoke and urge on
Troublemakers who incite riots.
Inciting workers to strike.
Instigate
(transitive) to incite; to bring about by urging or encouraging
To instigate a riot
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Incite
(transitive) To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action.
The judge was told by the accused that his friends had incited him to commit the crime.
Incite people to violence
Instigate
(transitive) to goad or urge (a person) forward, especially to wicked actions; to provoke
To instigate someone to a crime
Incite
To move to action; to stir up; to rouse; to spur or urge on.
Anthiochus, when he incited Prusias to join in war, set before him the greatness of the Romans.
No blown ambition doth our arms incite.
Instigate
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; - used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as, to instigate one to a crime.
He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity.
Incite
Give an incentive for action;
This moved me to sacrifice my career
Instigate
Provoke or stir up;
Incite a riot
Set off great unrest among the people
Incite
Provoke or stir up;
Incite a riot
Set off great unrest among the people
Instigate
Serve as the inciting cause of;
She prompted me to call my relatives
Incite
Urge on; cause to act;
They other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window
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