provocation

provocation
n
1. instigating, instigation, actuating, actuation, initiating, initiation, looking for trouble; fomenting, fomentation, agitating, agitation, exciting, excitement, excitation, arousing, rousing, whipping up, working up, stirring up, enflaming, impassioning, enkindling, kindling, firing up, touching off; eliciting, elicitation, evoking, evocation, calling forth, summoning up.
2. inciting, incitement, incitation, poking, prodding, pricking, thrusting, goading, prompting, spurring, egging on, encouraging, encouragement, putting up to; impelling, compelling, constraining, pressing, pushing, moving, forcing, propelling, lashing, driving, hounding; striking, penetrating, penetration, touching to the quick; stimulating, stimulation, animating, animation, reanimation, invigorating, invigoration, motivating, motivation.
3. annoyance, irritation, aggravation, disturbance; insult, affront, offense, sting, wound.
4. stimulus, fillip, motive, incentive, inducement; promotion, furtherance, advance, advancement; temptation, allurement, beguilement, inveiglement, infection, intoxication; poke, prod, prick, thrust, goad, spur, jolt, jog, Inf. start of something; impulse, push, urge, drive, itch, desire; dictate, call.

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  • provocation — [ prɔvɔkasjɔ̃ ] n. f. • déb. XIIIe « appel »; lat. provocatio 1 ♦ Action de provoquer, d inciter (qqn) à (qqch.). ⇒ appel. Provocation à la désobéissance, au meurtre. ⇒ excitation, incitation. Provocation à se battre, au combat. Provocation en… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • provocation — prov·o·ca·tion /ˌprä və kā shən/ n 1: the act of provoking 2: something that provokes, arouses, or stimulates Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …   Law dictionary

  • Provocation — Prov o*ca tion, n. [F. provocation, L. provocatio. See {Provoke}.] 1. The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger. Fabyan. [1913 Webster] 2. That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. Paley.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • provocation — Provocation. sub. f. v. Action de provoquer. Provocation du vomissement, au vomissement. provocation au peché, à la vengeance …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • provocation — (n.) early 15c., from O.Fr. provocation (12c.), from L. provocationem (nom. provocatio) a calling forth, challenge, noun of action from pp. stem of provocare provoke (see PROVOKE (Cf. provoke)) …   Etymology dictionary

  • provocation — [präv΄ə kā′shən] n. [ME provocacion < MFr provocation < L provocatio] 1. an act or instance of provoking 2. something that provokes; esp., a cause of resentment or irritation …   English World dictionary

  • Provocation — (v. lat.), 1) so v.w. Appellation an einen andern Richter, so Provocatio ad populum, das Rechtsmittel, vermittelst dessen jeder römische Bürger gegen eine Strafverfügung der öffentlichen Criminalgerichte (Judicia publica) an die Entscheidung des… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • provocation — [n] incitement, stimulus affront, annoyance, bothering, brickbat*, casus belli, cause, challenge, dare, defy, grabber*, grievance, grounds, harassment, incentive, indignity, inducement, injury, instigation, insult, irking, justification,… …   New thesaurus

  • provocation — Provocation, Prouocatio, Proritatio, Irritatio …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • provocation — ► NOUN 1) the action of provoking. 2) action or speech that provokes …   English terms dictionary

  • provocation — n. 1) extreme, gross provocation 2) provocation for (there was no provocation for such behavior) 3) at a provocation (he loses his temper at the slightest provocation) 4) under provocation (he did use strong language, but only under extreme… …   Combinatory dictionary

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