Excitement - Law Dictionary Search Results

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Excite

To call to activity in any way to rouse to feeling to kindle to passionate emotion to stir up to combined or general activity as to excite a person the spirits the passions to excite a mutiny or insurrection to excite heat by friction...

Exciteful

Full of exciting qualities as an exciteful story exciteful players...

Exciting

Calling or rousing into action producing excitement as exciting events an exciting story...

excited utterance

excited utterance : a statement that concerns a startling event (as a physical assault) and that is made by a person while under stress caused by the event see also res gestae spontaneous declaration at declaration compare dying declaration at declaration NOTE: Excited utterances are an exception to the hearsay rule. They may be admitted as evidence even if the declarant is available as a witness. ...