Webster's 1828 Dictionary
PROMPTING
ppr. Inciting; moving to action; aiding a speaker when at a loss for the words of his piece.
New American Oxford Dictionary
prompting
prompt ing |ˈprämptiNG ˈprɑm (p )tɪŋ | ▶noun the action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something: after some prompting, the defendant gave the police his name.
Oxford Dictionary
prompting
prompting |ˈprɒm (p )tɪŋ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something: after some prompting, the defendant gave the police his name.
Oxford Thesaurus
prompting
prompting noun Gilbert needed no prompting and moved quickly towards her: encouragement, reminder (s ), reminding, cue (s ), prodding, pushing, persuasion, hint (s ), advice, suggestion (s ), assistance, inducement.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
prompting
pr ó mpt ing 名詞 U 1 〖時に ~s 〗訴え, 促すこと ; 説得 .2 〘劇 〙せりふ付け .