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Definition of Provocation
1. Noun. Unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment.
Specialized synonyms: Aggro, Last Straw, Taunt, Taunting, Twit
Generic synonyms: Aggression
Derivative terms: Aggravate, Irritate, Provoke
2. Noun. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.
Generic synonyms: Mental Energy, Psychic Energy
Specialized synonyms: Signal
Derivative terms: Incite, Incite, Incite, Incite, Provoke, Provoke, Provoke
3. Noun. Needed encouragement. "The result was a provocation of vigorous investigation"
Generic synonyms: Encouragement
Specialized synonyms: Subornation
Derivative terms: Incite, Provoke
Definition of Provocation
1. n. The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger.
Definition of Provocation
1. Noun. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something ¹
2. Noun. Something that provokes; a provocative act ¹
3. Noun. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Provocation
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provocation
Literary usage of Provocation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"[9] To be sure there was ample evidence of provocation In the case at bar.
The deceased had just made a violent attack on the mother of the accused, ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"In other words, if the provocation would not reduce a homicide by a sober man
from murder to manslaughter, it will not so reduce a homicide by a drunken ..."
3. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"provocation 42. provocation is no ground for exempting one absolutely from criminal
responsibility for his acts, but may be ground for ..."
4. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"the road passed had been washed away by the sea, it was held that this, being an
act of God, relieved him from liability.40 provocation 42. ..."
5. Handbook of criminal law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"provocation 42. provocation is no ground for exempting one absolutely from criminal
responsibility for his acts, but may be ground for mitigating the ..."
6. A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
""offender it may be evidence of pro- " is provocation to the person illegally "
vocation." " arrested, but not to the bystanders. ..."
7. A History of the Criminal Law of England by James Fitzjames Stephen (1883)
"'provocation to another only by " (c) An unlawful imprisonment is ' doing that
which he had a legal "a provocation to the person impri- 'right to do, ..."
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