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PROVOKING
agitative, agitating, provoking
(adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; “a provoking delay at the airport”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
provoking
present participle of provoke
Adjective
provoking (comparative more provoking, superlative most provoking)
annoying; irritating
Noun
provoking (plural provokings)
provocation
Source: Wiktionary
Pro*vok"ing, a.
Definition: Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
– Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.
PROVOKE
Pro*voke", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Provoked; p. pr. & vb. n. Provoking.] Etym: [F. provoquer, L. provocare to call forth; pro forth + vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis, voice, cry, call. See Voice.]
Definition: 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. Obey his voice, provoke him not. Ex. xxiii. 21. Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. Eph. vi. 4. Such acts Of contumacy will provoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.
Syn.
– To irritate; arouse; stir up; awake; excite; incite; anger. See Irritate.
Pro*voke", v. i.
1. To cause provocation or anger.
2. To appeal.
Note: [A Latinism] [Obs.] Dryden.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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