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Definition of Provokingly
1. Adverb. In a provocative manner. "`Try it,' he said provocatively"
Definition of Provokingly
1. Adverb. In a provoking manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Provokingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Provokingly
Literary usage of Provokingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"Even those who had been the least hopeful, not to say the most provokingly
prophetic of evil omen, found themselves insensibly participating in the general ..."
2. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"Even those who had been the least hopeful, not to say the most provokingly
prophetic of evil omen, found themselves insensibly participating in the general ..."
3. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"The islanders were incessantly in a state of danger and alarm; yet they would,
at times provokingly return the fire; still they remained unattacked. ..."
4. Walter Savage Landor: A Biography by John Forster (1869)
"... finest poetry in the language " ; so it was with Julian ; and so no doubt it
was with the play he had so provokingly destroyed. ..."
5. The Eugene Field I Knew by Francis Wilson (1898)
"He ostentatiously, provokingly, and continuously flaunted his own copy, and
otherwise behaved so exasperatingly that at length it became necessary to ..."
6. Robert Montgomery and His Reviewers: With Some Remarks on the Present State by Edward Clarkson (1830)
"In these and other beautiful descriptions, a loose phrase, now and then provokingly
occurring, induces the inference, that the author, with the impatience ..."
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