Both Uses
provocation
in
The Fountainhead
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- You must realize that you have given Professor Peterkin great provocation.†
Chpt 1.1 *provocation = something that causes a reaction--especially anger or violence OR the act of causing an angry or violent reaction
- Then Keating wandered aimlessly through the halls, snarling at young draftsmen without provocation.†
Chpt 1.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(provocation) actions that cause a reaction--especially anger or violence
or:
the act of causing an angry or violent reaction - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)