Provoking

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Webster's Dictionary [1]

(1): ( p. pr. & vb. n.) of Provoke

(2): ( a.) Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment.

King James Dictionary [2]

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.

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