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