What is "provocatives"

Usage examples of "provocatives".

Now all the impressions of burning desire, from the lively scenes I had been spectatress of, ripened by the heat of this exercise, and collecting to a head, throbb'd and agi-tated me with insupportable irritations: I did not now enjoy a calm of reason enough to perceive, but I extatically, in-deed, felt the power of such rare and exquisite provocatives, as the examples of the night had proved towards thus exalting our pleasures: which, with great joy, I sensibly found my gallant shared in, by his nervous and home expressions of it: his eyes flashing eloquent flames, his action infuriated with the stings of it, all conspiring to rise my delight by assur-ing me of his.

There would be infinitely more, if complaint were not the greatest of all provocatives to a repetition and increase of the ill-usage.

It is, that human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the would be infinitely more, if complaint were not the greatest of all provocatives to a repetition and increase of the ill-usage.