Usually means: Incitement or urging to take action.
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  1. instigation: Merriam-Webster
  2. instigation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instigation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. instigation: Vocabulary.com
  5. Instigation, instigation: Wordnik
  6. instigation: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. instigation: Wiktionary
  8. instigation: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. instigation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Instigation, instigation: Dictionary.com
  11. instigation: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. instigation: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Instigation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. instigation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. instigation: Rhymezone
  16. Instigation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. instigation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. instigation: FreeDictionary.org
  19. instigation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. instigation: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. instigation: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. instigation: Legal dictionary

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

Similar:
abetment, mounting, fomentation, provacation, inveiglement, imputation, evildoing, spite, insultation, shit-stirring, more...

Opposite:
inhibition, deterrence, disincentive, obstacle

Adjectives:
own, direct, vicarious, british, secret, positive, french, foreign, outside, communist, soviet

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Similar:
abetment, mounting, fomentation, provacation, inveiglement, imputation, evildoing, spite, insultation, shit-stirring, more...

Opposite:
inhibition, deterrence, disincentive, obstacle

Adjectives:
own, direct, vicarious, british, secret, positive, french, foreign, outside, communist, soviet

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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