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Inducement

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Inducement
Electra
incited brother, Orestes, to kill their mother and her lover. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 92; Gk. Lit.: Electra, Orestes]
Hezekiah
exhorts Judah to stand fast against Assyrians. [O.T.: II Chronicles 32:6–8]
Lantier, Etienne
exhorts fellow miners to massive strike. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal]
Mannon, Lavinia
20th-century Electra in New England. [Am. Lit.: Mourning Becomes Electra]
Salome
beguilingly prompts decapitation of John the Baptist. [N.T.: Mark 6:22–28]
Tricoteuses
sobriquet of battle-exhorting women at French Convention. [Fr. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1100]
Tyrtaeus
(fl. 7th century B.C.) elegist; roused Spartans to Messenian triumph. [Gk. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1111]

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You mean that you do not understand the nature of this payment which to the best men is the great inducement to rule?
With you, it is not, How is such a one likely to be influenced, What is the inducement most likely to act upon such a person's feelings, age, situation, and probable habits of life considered -- but, How should I be influenced, What would be my inducement in acting so and so?
He found, also, a few beaver skins in their camp, for which he paid liberally, as an inducement to them to hunt for more; informing them that some of his party intended to live among the mountains, and trade with the native hunters for their peltries.
 
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