Definition of Provocativeness

1. n. Quality of being provocative.

Definition of Provocativeness

1. Noun. The quality of being provocative ¹

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Definition of Provocativeness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Provocativeness

provisorship
provisorships
provisory
provisos
provisour
provitamin
provitamin A
provitamins
provocate
provocateur
provocateurs
provocation
provocations
provocative
provocatively
provocativeness
provocatives
provocatory
provok't
provokable
provoke
provoked
provokement
provokements
provoker
provokers
provokes
provoketh
provoking
provokingly

Literary usage of Provocativeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1913)
"no doubt, that as the coarser method is reduced more and more to a means of preliminary exploration, its provocativeness will steadily decrease. ..."

2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"On the strength of this in September, 1606, a procession of special provocativeness was held; and a riot of corresponding vehemence ensued, which the town ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"On the strength of this in September, 1606, a procession of special provocativeness was held ; and a riot of corresponding vehemence ensued, which the town ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1894)
"Thus grew to its maturity what our author satirically, but perhaps with an unwise provocativeness, brands as the ' Glacial nightmare. ..."

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