Akademik

instigation
I 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 acton — The originator or instigator of a crime is a worse offender than the actual perpetrator of it
II index cause (reason), determinant, impetus, incentive, inducement, influence, origination, provocation, reason (basis)

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