inducement

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Meaning

The act of inducing, or the state of being induced.

That which induces; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act; as, reward is an inducement to toil.

Matter stated by way of explanatory preamble or introduction to the main allegations of a pleading; a leading to.

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A mother who is not everything for her children: a friend, a teacher, a confidant, a source of joy and founded pride, inducement and soothing, reconciliator, judge and forgiver, that mother obviously chose the wrong job. Joseph Goebbels

We [ Christians] have no pressing inducement to take part in your public meetings; nor is there anything more entirely foreign to us than affairs of state. We acknowledge one all-embracing commonwealth-the world. Tertullian

Curiosity is a terrible inducement. Lindsey Davis

It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure. Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh

The planet holds out no such inducement. The planet is everybody's. All it offers is the grass, the sky, the water, the ineluctable dream of peace and fruition. E. B. White

Awards shows are my greatest inducement to get back into shape. Jane Kaczmarek

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