All 3 Uses of
provocation
in
Sense and Sensibility
- Elinor kept her concern and her censure to herself; and was very thankful that Marianne was not present, to share the provocation.†
Chpt 33 *
- John Dashwood was greatly astonished; but his nature was calm, not open to provocation, and he never wished to offend anybody, especially anybody of good fortune.†
Chpt 37
- She feared that under this persuasion she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.†
Chpt 47
Definition:
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(provocation) actions that cause a reaction--especially anger or violence
or:
the act of causing an angry or violent reaction