Definitions for instigation
ˌɪn stɪˈgeɪ ʃənin·sti·ga·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. abetment, abettal, instigationnoun

   the verbal act of urging on

2. fomentation, instigationnoun

   deliberate and intentional triggering (of trouble or discord)

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. instigationnoun

   The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; especially to evil or wickedness.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instigationnoun

   Incitement to a crime; encouragement; impulse to ill.

   Etymology: instigation, French; from instigate.

   Such instigations have been often dropt,
   Where I have took them up. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.

   Why, what need we
   Commune with you of this? But rather follow
   Our forceful instigation. William Shakespeare, Winter's Tale.

   It was partly by the instigation of some factious malecontents that bare principal stroke amongst them. Francis Bacon.

   Shall any man, that wilfully procures the cutting of whole armies to pieces, set up for an innocent? As if the lives that were taken away by his instigation were not to be charged upon his account. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

   We have an abridgment of all the baseness and villainy that both the corruption of nature and the instigation of the devil could bring the sons of men to. Robert South, Sermons.

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1. instigation

   Instigation is the act of initiating, provoking, or causing something to happen or develop. It often refers to encouraging, stirring up or inciting actions, reactions or feelings, especially negative ones such as conflict, discord or trouble.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Instigationnoun

   the act of instigating, or the state of being instigated; incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness

2. Etymology: [L. instigatio: cf. F. instigation.]

Matched Categories

1. • Encouragement
   • Trigger

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of instigation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of instigation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of instigation in a Sentence

1. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi:

   The Philippines' stubbornness is clearly the result of behind-the-scene instigation and political manipulation.

2. De Luca:

   You accuse me of incitement, let me meet, look in the face of someone I have incited, that way I know what he has done at my instigation. The crime is incitement in the abstract, it corresponds to nothing.

3. Guy Fieri:

   I don’t like him making fun of people, and I don’t like him talking sh**, and he’s never talked shi** to my face. I know he’s definitely gotta have issues, ’cos the average person doesn’t behave that way. 'It’s not that I’m not open to the reality that the food world was like this from a few people’s perspective. It’s just, What are you doing? What is your instigation? You have nothing else to f***ing worry about than if I have bleached hair or not? I mean, f**k.

4. Edward Alsworth Ross:

   During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power...

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=instigation
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Instigation
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=instigation
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/instigation