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(1):

(v. i.) To cause provocation or anger.

(2):

(v. t.) 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.

(3):

(v. i.) To appeal. [A Latinism]

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Provoke'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/provoke.html. 1828.
 
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