Both Uses of
provoke
in
Great Expectations
- It was such a very provoking question (for it had never in the most distant manner occurred to me), that I said, snappishly,— "Biddy, what do you mean?"†
p. 157.9 *provoking = causing (a reaction)
- While I felt sincerely obliged to him for being so interested and considerate, I had an odd half-provoked sense of suspicion upon me, that if Joe had been coming to see him, he wouldn't have been quite so brisk about it.†
p. 230.7provoked = caused (a reaction)
Definition:
to cause a reaction — often an emotional reaction like anger, and sometimes done on purpose