Word Meanings - PROVOCATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress. 5. An appeal to a court. Note: Ayliffe. (more info) 1. The act of provoking, or causing vexation

Additional info about word: PROVOCATION

Such prior insult or injury as may be supposed, under the circumstances, to create hot blood, and to excuse an assault made in retort or redress. 5. An appeal to a court. Note: Ayliffe. (more info) 1. The act of provoking, or causing vexation or, anger. Fabyan. 2. That which provokes, or excites anger; the cause of resentment; as, to give provocation. Paley. 3. Incitement; stimulus; as, provocation to mirth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROVOCATION)

• Affront
• Outrage
• provocation
• insult
• ill-treatment
• abuse
• wrong
• offence
• Indignity
• Aggression
• Invasion
• attack
• onslaught
• encroachment
• assault
• incursion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of PROVOCATION)

• Respect
• salute
• honor
• praise
• flatter
• compliment
• gratify

Related words: (words related to PROVOCATION)

• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• INSULT
  1. The act of leaping on; onset; attack. Dryden. 2. Gross abuse offered to another, either by word or act; an act or speech of insolence or contempt; an affront; an indignity. The ruthless sneer that insult adds to grief. Savage. Syn. -- Affront;
• ONSLAUGHT
  1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson.
• INSULTMENT
  Insolent treatment; insult. "My speech of insultment ended." Shak.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• WRONGOUS
  Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• INSULTING
  Containing, or characterized by, insult or abuse; tending to insult or affront; as, insulting language, treatment, etc. -- In*sult"ing*ly, adv. Syn. -- Insolent; impertinent; saucy; rude; abusive; contemptuous. See Insolent.
• AFFRONTEE
  One who receives an affront. Lytton.
• WRONGLESS
  Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney.
• AFFRONTEDLY
  Shamelessly. Bacon.
• FLATTERINGLY
  With flattery.
• HONOR
  1. Esteem due or paid to worth; high estimation; respect; consideration; reverence; veneration; manifestation of respect or reverence. A prophet is not without honor, save in his own country. Matt. xiii.
• AFFRONT
  affrontare to strike against, fr. L. ad + frons forehead, front. See 1. To front; to face in position; to meet or encounter face to face. All the sea-coasts do affront the Levant. Holland. That he, as 't were by accident, may here Affront Ophelia.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• BY-RESPECT
  Private end or view; by-interest. Dryden.
• UNRESPECT
  Disrespect. "Unrespect of her toil." Bp. Hall.