Both Uses of
provoke
in
The Age of Innocence
- The exciting fact was her having lived in an atmosphere so thick with drama that her own tendency to provoke it had apparently passed unperceived.†
Chpt 13 *
- But her reminder that they were in his wife's carriage provoked him to an impulse of retaliation.†
Chpt 29
Definition:
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(provoke) to cause a reaction -- typically an emotional reaction such as anger; and sometimes caused intentionally