Both Uses

provoke
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
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Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms Against your honor, That, with the little godliness I have, I did full hard forbear him.†
Scene 1.2 *

provoking = causing (a reaction)
Sir, he is rash, and very sudden in choler, and haply with his truncheon may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny, whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Cassio.†
Scene 2.1

provoke = cause (a reaction)

Definitions:

(1) (provoke)
to cause a reaction — often an emotional reaction like anger, and sometimes done on purpose
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)