| 释义 |
unproˈvoking, ppl. a.
(un-1 10.)
1710Fleetwood Serm. 7 To..dash against the Stones the innocent and un⁓provoking Children. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. xii, But to hurt a brother..so unprovoking,—and so unresenting;—'tis base. 1821Cobbett Rur. Rides (1885) I. 38 It is no very unprovoking reflection. |