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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unprovoucked, p.p. [e.m.E. vnprouoked (1585); Provok(e v.] Unprovoked. —?c1675 J. Gordon Hist. III 144.
They fall to complaine upon the King, First … Twenty-eighth, Edinburgh castell doing great violence to buildings, women, and childeren, for many dayes past, yet unprovoucked by the towne
