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PROVO'KE, v.t. L.provoco, to call forth; pro and voco, to call. 1. To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war. 2. To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage. Ye fathers,provoke not your children to wrath. Eph.6. Often provoked by the insolence of some of the bishops-...
PROVO'KER, n. One that excites anger or other passion; one that excites war or sedition. 1. That which excites, causes or promotes.
PROVO'KING, ppr. Exciting into action; inciting; inducing by motives; making angry. 1. a. Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion; as provoking words; provoking treatment.
pr. & vb. n.) of Provoke. 2. (a.) Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
Provocation, Provoke: primarily, "to sharpen" (akin to A, No. 2), is used metaphorically, signifying "to rouse to anger, to provoke," in the Passive Voice, in Act 17:16, RV, "was provoked" (AV, "was stirred"); in 1Cr 13:5, RV, "is not provoked" (the word "easily" in AV, represents no word in the original). See STIR.
To call into action; to arouse; to excite; as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury; to provoke war. 2. To make angry; to offend; to incense; to enrage. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Ephesians 6:4.
To call into action to arouse to excite as, to provoke anger or wrath by offensive words or by injury to provoke war. 2. To make angry to offend to incense to enrage.
; PROVOKE . ‘To provoke’ is now ‘to try to call forth evil passions,’ but in AV [Note: Authorized Version.] it is used in the sense of inciting to any action, good or evil, as 2 Corinthians 9:2 ‘Your zeal hath provoked very many.’ ‘Provocation,’
