Both Uses
provoke
in
Sweet Far Thing
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- 'If you run for him with your knife, you will provoke the tiger,' she advised.†
Chpt 2 *provoke = cause (a reaction)
- "Missus Nightwing is calling for you, miss," she says sympathetically, and I am afraid to ask what has provoked her kindness.†
Chpt 4provoked = caused (a reaction)
Definitions:
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(1)
(provoke) to cause a reaction — often an emotional reaction like anger, and sometimes done on purpose
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)