Dictionary entry overview: What does stewardship mean? â¢ STEWARDSHIP (noun) The noun STEWARDSHIP has 1 sense: 1. the position of steward Familiarity information: STEWARDSHIP used as a noun is very rare.
Definition of incite for English Language Learners. : 1  to cause (someone) to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way. : 2  to cause (an angry, harmful, or violent action or feeling)
, to challenge : , forth; see pro- 1 +. , to call; see wekw-in Indo-European roots .]. Synonyms: provoke, incite, excite, stimulate, arouse, rouse, stir 1. These verbs mean to move a person to action or feeling or to summon something into being by so moving a person.Provoke often merely states the consequences produced: Let my presumption not provoke thy wrath (Shakespeare).a situation which in the country would have provoked meetings (John Galsworthy).ntice, lure, tempt-provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; He lured me into temptation. rejuvenate-cause (a stream or river) to erode, as by an uplift of the land.