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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of provoke.

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provoke + -eth

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Examples

  • And love-desire provoketh me to wake my wonted pain: The pang of parting takes for ever place within my breast,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • He quotes an unnamed culinary commentator as saying that the turnip 'augmenteth the sede of man, provoketh carnall lust'.

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • He quotes an unnamed culinary commentator as saying that the turnip 'augmenteth the sede of man, provoketh carnall lust'.

    What I cooked last night. 2006

  • The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.

    Proverbs 20. 1999

  • And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

    Ezekiel 8. 1999

  • He thought of the line of Shakespeare: ‘Beauty provoketh fools’.

    Sharpe's Eagle Cornwell, Bernard 1981

  • Cleaving inordinately to the things of the world at such a season, is that which provoketh

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Upon this he is lifted up, and causelessly provoketh Jehoash, king of

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • _Violets_, if it be rubbed about the Tempels of the head, doth remove the extream heat, asswageth the head Ache, provoketh sleep, and moistneth the braine; it is good against melancholly, dullnesse, and heavinesse of the spirits, and against swellings, and soares that be over-hot.

    A Book of Fruits and Flowers Anonymous

  • The lips of a fool intermeddle with strife: and his mouth provoketh quarrels.

    The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete Anonymous

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