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provoking
(mass) | provoking
- provokujúci |
provoking
(encz) | provoking,provokující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Provoking
(gcide) | Provoke \Pro*voke"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked; p. pr. &
vb. n. Provoking.] [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call
forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice,
cry, call. See Voice.]
To call forth; to call into being or action; esp., to incense
to action, a faculty or passion, as love, hate, or ambition;
hence, commonly, to incite, as a person, to action by a
challenge, by taunts, or by defiance; to exasperate; to
irritate; to offend intolerably; to cause to retaliate.
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Obey his voice, provoke him not. --Ex. xxiii.
21.
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Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. --Eph.
vi. 4.
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Such acts
Of contumacy will provoke the Highest
To make death in us live. --Milton.
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Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust? --Gray.
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To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it,
what it provokes in his own soul. -- J.
Burroughs.
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Syn: To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite;
anger. See Irritate.
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Provoking
(gcide) | Provoking \Pro*vok"ing\, a.
Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending
to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or
treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.
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provoking
(wn) | provoking
adj 1: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a
provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative,
agitating, provoking] |
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provoking
(mass) | provoking
- provokujúci |
provoking
(encz) | provoking,provokující adj: Zdeněk Brož |
provokingly
(encz) | provokingly,provokativně adv: Zdeněk Brož |
thought-provoking
(encz) | thought-provoking, |
unprovoking
(encz) | unprovoking, adj: |
Provokingly
(gcide) | Provoking \Pro*vok"ing\, a.
Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending
to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or
treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.
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provoking
(wn) | provoking
adj 1: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a
provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative,
agitating, provoking] |
provokingly
(wn) | provokingly
adv 1: in a provocative manner; "`Try it,' he said
provocatively" [syn: provocatively, provokingly] |
thought-provoking
(wn) | thought-provoking
adj 1: stimulating interest or thought; "a challenging
hypothesis"; "a thought-provoking book" [syn:
challenging, thought-provoking] |
unprovoking
(wn) | unprovoking
adj 1: not provocative [syn: unprovocative, unprovoking]
[ant: provocative] |
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