provocation

From Middle English provocacioun, from Old French provocacion, from Late Latin prōvocātiō, prōvocātiōnem, from Latin prōvocō. By surface analysis, provoke +‎ -ation. Doublet of provokatsiya.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɑvəˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌpɹɒvəˈkeɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən
• Hyphenation: prov‧o‧ca‧tion

provocation (countable and uncountable, plural provocations)

1. The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something.
2. Something that provokes; a provocative act.
   • 2007 February 28, Daniel J. Wakin, “City Opera Lures Director From Paris”, in The New York Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 25 January 2021:

     The Salzburg Festival stunned the musical world by hiring him to succeed the hallowed Herbert von Karajan, and Mr. Mortier spent the 1990s there scandalizing many of its tradition-minded, well-heeled opera patrons, the most notorious provocation being a production of Johann Strauss’s “Fledermaus” laced with cocaine and fornication and aimed at Austria’s far-right political forces.

3. (emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.

   When it's time to check for provocation, ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.

Usually followed by of, to, or for: provocation of violence (less common:to, rare:for), provocation to war (less common: of, for).

• provocateur
• provocator
• provoke

Borrowed from Late Latin provocātiōnem, from Latin provocō.

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provocation f (plural provocations)

1. provocation

• provocateur
• provoquer

• → Polish: prowokacja
• → Turkish: provokasyon

• “provocation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012