provokement
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editprovokement (plural provokements)
- (now rare) Provocation.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Whose sharp provokement them incenst so sore, / That both were bent t'avenge his usage base […]