All 11 Uses of
provoke
in
Pride and Prejudice
- On his approaching them soon afterwards, though without seeming to have any intention of speaking, Miss Lucas defied her friend to mention such a subject to him; which immediately provoking Elizabeth to do it, she turned to him and said: "Did you not think, Mr. Darcy, that I expressed myself uncommonly well just now, when I was teasing Colonel Forster to give us a ball at Meryton?"†
p. 25.2provoking = causing (a reaction)
- She often tried to provoke Darcy into disliking her guest, by talking of their supposed marriage, and planning his happiness in such an alliance.†
p. 51.3 *provoke = cause (a reaction)
- She was resolved against any sort of conversation with him, and turned away with a degree of ill-humor which she could not wholly surmount even in speaking to Mr. Bingley, whose blind partiality provoked her.†
p. 89.1provoked = caused (a reaction)
- Indeed, Mr. Darcy, it is very ungenerous in you to mention all that you knew to my disadvantage in Hertfordshire—and, give me leave to say, very impolitic too—for it is provoking me to retaliate, and such things may come out as will shock your relations to hear.†
p. 170.7provoking = causing (a reaction)
- In his present behavior to herself, moreover, she had a fresh source of displeasure, for the inclination he soon testified of renewing those intentions which had marked the early part of their acquaintance could only serve, after what had since passed, to provoke her.†
p. 225.2provoke = cause (a reaction)
- The easy assurance of the young couple, indeed, was enough to provoke him.†
p. 298.7
- I was sometimes quite provoked, but then I recollected my dear Elizabeth and Jane, and for their sakes had patience with her.†
p. 307.8provoked = caused (a reaction)
- They were now almost at the door of the house, for she had walked fast to get rid of him; and unwilling, for her sister's sake, to provoke him, she only said in reply, with a good-humored smile: "Come, Mr. Wickham, we are brother and sister, you know.†
p. 311.6provoke = cause (a reaction)
- Mr. Wickham was so perfectly satisfied with this conversation that he never again distressed himself, or provoked his dear sister Elizabeth, by introducing the subject of it; and she was pleased to find that she had said enough to keep him quiet.†
p. 312.1provoked = caused (a reaction)
- "You are very cruel," said her sister, "you will not let me smile, and are provoking me to it every moment."†
p. 324.5provoking = causing (a reaction)
- There was nothing of presumption or folly in Bingley that could provoke his ridicule, or disgust him into silence; and he was more communicative, and less eccentric, than the other had ever seen him.†
p. 327.3provoke = cause (a reaction)
Definition:
to cause a reaction — often an emotional reaction like anger, and sometimes done on purpose