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Definition of Provoking
1. Adjective. Causing or tending to cause anger or resentment. "A provoking delay at the airport"
Definition of Provoking
1. a. Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.
Definition of Provoking
1. Verb. (present participle of ''provoke'') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Provoking
1. provoke [v] - See also: provoke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provoking
Literary usage of Provoking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Home-talks by John Humphrey Noyes (1875)
"provoking TO LOVE. THE world is well skilled in the art of provoking to wrath
and strife and revenge; but to provoke one another to love is a thing almost ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"out provoking a rupture. He returned to England in. He died in London on 22 March..
A list of his papers is given in the obituary notice in the 'Proceedings ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"provoking, wi' hoast-provoking smeek, The Vision. D. 1.3. Provost [the chief
magistrate of a royal burgh]. Provost John is still deaf to the church's relief ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1873)
"The single temper-provoking feature is the disposition of the figures. Why figure
4 should be placed on page 49, when it is so badly needed on page 21, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"... thus never to be seen or known by any one but himself." Sometimes, however,
Reynolds gave him a sharp lesson in practice. " It was very provoking," ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... whom she continually defied nose. carelessness, provoking and delightful; of
Tho' she loves a craped head and is fond of a her coquetries and her ..."
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