Provoking
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Provoking - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
PROVO'KING, ppr. Exciting into action; inciting; inducing by motives; making angry.
1. a. Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion; as provoking words; provoking treatment.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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