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Definition
actions that cause a reaction—especially anger or violence
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the act of causing an angry or violent reaction
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the act of causing an angry or violent reaction
- It is not the least among the strange things bred by the intense artificialness of sea-usages, that while in the open air of the deck some officers will, upon provocation, bear themselves boldly and defyingly enough towards their commander; yet, ten to one, let those very officers the next moment go down to their customary dinner in that same commander's cabin, and straightway their inoffensive, not to say deprecatory and humble air towards him, as he sits at the head of the table;...Chapters 34-36 — The Cabin-Table; The Mast-Head; The Qarter-Deck—Ahab and all (5% in)
There are no more uses of "provocation" in Moby Dick.
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