inducement

Pure compassion for those two poor children was her only inducement.

I would neither give it up nor live it again under any inducement, and yet all that I lost was some twenty yards off my drive!

Oftentimes the merchants of the town in which the institute is held offer premiums as an inducement to the farmers.

In vain was he offered a share in the partition of the Netherlands by way of an inducement.

It was still more encouraging that he had determined to save money, and had an inducement to do so.

Most men of our breed like to know how to kill things, so that a gun would probably be an inducement.

The sum would have been an inducement to leave peaceably—a matter in which trouble was to be expected.

I think I could throw out an inducement which would lead him to look favorably on her—when she's of a marriageable age, that is.

What inducement was there for Custance to throw herself on such mercy as that?

We will now discuss the action of the second, corrective factor, in the inducement of development.