unprovoke

Definitions

To undo or counter a provocation.

Examples

“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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