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Definition of Provocateurs
1. provocateur [n] - See also: provocateur
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provocateurs
Literary usage of Provocateurs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Belgians Under the German Eagle by Jean Massart (1916)
"Agents-provocateurs or " Traps." A close espionage surrounds those who undertake
the carrying of letters or the introduction of newspapers. ..."
2. Sixteen Years in Siberia: Some Experiences of a Russian Revolutionist by Lev Grigorʹevich Deĭch, Helen Chisholm (1903)
"... FIGNER — NUMEROUS IMPRISONMENTS — "AGENTS provocateurs" WHEN I told the old
governor that I was engaged on no plan of escape, I spoke the simple truth. ..."
3. To the American People; Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United by National Popular Government League, Rome Green Brown, Zechariah Chafee (1920)
"cover provocative agents or "agents provocateurs," such as have been familiar in
old Russia or Spain. Such agents have been introduced by the Department of ..."
4. Secret Service in South Africa by Douglas Blackburn, W. Waithman Caddell (1911)
"... Country—Boer or British Agents-provocateurs—The Real Object of Native Wars—Who
Supplied the ... provocateurs ..."
5. Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo (1919)
"That agents-provocateurs, spies, informers, police agents, and pogrom-makers
formerly in the service of the Czar have been given positions of trust and ..."
6. Guide to the Boris I. Nicolaevsky Collection in the Hoover Institution Archives by Anna M. Bourguina, Michael Jakobson (1989)
"Clippings, correspondence, minutes, photographs, printed matters, reports re
activities of agents provocateurs within Russian revolutionary parties, ..."
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