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provocation

In law, the partial defence that the accused carried out a murder in the heat of anger after being provoked to lose their self-control. Such a defence, if successful, reduces the charge in English law to manslaughter. However, the defence has been criticized as an acceptance of male violence (since the provoked is usually male) and also as justifying an outmoded desire for retaliation that is inappropriate in modern society.



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A TURBULENT Person was brought before a Judge to be tried for an assault with intent to commit murder, and it was proved that he had been variously obstreperous without apparent provocation, had affected the peripheries of several luckless fellow-citizens with the trunk of a small tree, and subsequently cleaned out the town.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
The other phase of the death-road was that of the habitual drunkards, who had a way of turning up their toes without apparent provocation.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
Ignorant of the provocation which had produced this unforgiving temper of mind, Miss Ladd gently remonstrated.
I Say No by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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