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provocator|ˈprɒvəkeɪtə(r)|
[ad. Fr. provocateur.]
A provoker or challenger; = provocateur.
1896W. le Queux Secret Service iv. 79 From Paris ‘flying brigades’ of spies and provocators are sent out. 1913Amer. Yearbk. 1912 392/2 This..has caused a reawakening of the revolutionary movement..the old Terrorist wing having practically disappeared..on account of the exposure of the activity of Eugene Azeff and his staff of police spies and provocators within its ranks. 1918A. Gray tr. Grelling's Crime II. ii. 132 If even the creator of the defensive Entente of 1904 was regarded as a dangerous provocator, [etc.]. |