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Provocation

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provocation
English criminal law words or conduct that incite a person to attack another
Provocation 

(1) An act of inciting or prompting individuals, groups, or organizations to actions that will lead to grave, sometimes disastrous, consequences.

(2) Treacherous actions perpetrated by private agents of the police and reactionary parties (agents provocateurs) aimed at exposing, discrediting, and ultimately crushing progressive and revolutionary organizations.
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A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-citizens with the trunk of a small tree, and subsequently cleaned out the town.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The other phase of the death-road was that of the habitual drunkards, who had a way of turning up their toes without apparent provocation.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Ignorant of the provocation which had produced this unforgiving temper of mind, Miss Ladd gently remonstrated.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
 
 
 
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