Unprovoke

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

To undo or counter a provocation..

Example Sentences

Lechery, sir, it provokes and it unprovokes: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance: therefore, much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery

Then we'll just have to unprovoke him.

Just as we in the West say that wine provokes the desire and unprovokes the performance, so in Cipangu they say that Oleander-tea unprovokes the desire but provokes the performance.

Furthermore, I consider political information as catalyst for informatic dialectics; a tranquilizer and of course, an equivocator which can provoke and unprovoke

The equivocating Pandulph provokes and unprovokes, damns and absolves, uncrowns and crowns almost from scene to scene.

Volpone, in a desperate attempt to undo his own overreaching, to "unprovoke" his lawyer Voltore — "When I provoked him, then I lost myself" [5.11.22] — must falsify the brief and uncharacteristically true pleading of Voltore on the grounds he is possessed:

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• unprovokes
• unprovoking
• unprovoked

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