Instigation

Legal Definition and Related Resources of Instigation

Meaning of Instigation

The act by which one incites another to do something; as, to injure a third person, or to commit some crime or misdemeanor, to commence a suit, or to prosecute a criminal. See “Accomplice.”

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Synonyms of Instigation

noun

  • actuation
  • agitation
  • animation
  • cajolery
  • causation
  • coaxing
  • easement
  • encouragement
  • excitation
  • exhortation
  • fomentation
  • goading
  • helpfulness
  • hortation
  • impetus
  • impulsion
  • incentive
  • incitation
  • incitement
  • inducement
  • influence
  • initiation
  • insistance
  • insistence
  • inspiration
  • invigoration
  • invitation
  • irritation
  • motivation
  • persuasion
  • perturbation
  • piquancy
  • pressure
  • prompting
  • provocation
  • solicitation
  • stimulation
  • stimulus
  • suasion
  • supporting
  • taunting
  • urging Associated Concepts: accomplice
  • aiding and abetting a crime
  • instigation of a crime
  • promoting a crime foreign phrases: Plus peccat author quam actor
  • The originator or instigator of a crime is a worse offender than the actual perpetrator of it

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