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Incitement to action after the end of the crime is arousing feeling (7)

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emotive

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(Other definitions for emotive that I've seen before include "Affecting, moving" , "able to get going" , "Arousing strong feeling" , "Tending to arouse feelings" , "Highly-charged" .)

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