What is the meaning of incitement?

noun

• An act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating.
  • usage: "the incitement of mutiny"
  • synonyms: incitation
• Needed encouragement.
  • usage: "the result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"
  • synonyms: provocation
• Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.
  • synonyms: incitation, provocation
• The act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion.
  • synonyms: exhortation