Incitements [noun]
Definition of Incitements:
motive
Sentence/Example of Incitements:
Those signs look strangely unlike incitements to greater speed; and what mean those struggles to get loose?
The songs are brief, wild repetitions of sentiments of heroic deeds, or incitements to patriotic or military ardour.
This anxiety will not be one of the least incitements to the plan I propose pursuing.
But take the strongest and most pressing incitements to the corruptions of the heart, and the evil of our nature.
More indirect rewards and punishments abound in all our incitements to effort and need not be mentioned here.
Persuasions, caresses, and threats are all thrown away upon him as incitements to study.
The armies, besides the incitements from these speeches, were animated by national stimulations of their own.
In this country we need no incitements to the assertion and maintenance of our rights, whether individual or national.
They are rather provocations, incitements, challenges to an act of inquiry which is to terminate in knowledge.
It was discovered that messengers had been sent to regiments at other stations, with incitements to insubordination.