Both Uses
provoke
in
Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
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- I mean not to exhibit horror for the purpose of provoking revenge, but to awaken us from fatal and unmanly slumbers, that we may pursue determinately some fixed object.†
Chpt 3.provoking = causing (a reaction)
- The robber, and the murderer, would often escape unpunished, did not the injuries which our tempers sustain, provoke us into justice.†
Chpt 3. *provoke = cause (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)