Unprovoke

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To undo or counter a provocation.

    "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"

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"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"

Etymology

From un- + provoke.

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