Antonyms for provocateur

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pruh-vok-uh-tur, -too r; French praw-vaw-ka-tœr

Phonetic Transcription : prəˌvɒk əˈtɜr, -ˈtʊər; French prɔ vɔ kaˈtœr

Definition of provocateur

Origin : 1915 (Emma Goldman), shortened form of agent provocateur "person hired to make trouble" (1845), from French provocateur, from Latin provocator "challenger," from provocare "to call out" (see provoke).

As in instigator : noun troublemaker
As in inciter : noun agitator
As in agent provocateur : noun secret agent
As in agitator : noun person who disturbs, causes trouble

Example sentences :

The Whites put up a provocateur as before a pogrom in Russia.
Extract from : « The Soul of John Brown » by Stephen Graham

The provocateur is rewarded with greater liberty and special privileges.
Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman

A few detectives had also managed to find their way here, and there was even one provocateur.
Extract from : « The Created Legend » by Feodor Sologub

You had to point out to them several times that it was Oswald who was the Castro provocateur, so to say, and not you?
Extract from : « Warren Commission (10 of 26): Hearings Vol. X (of 15) » by The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy

The tricked boys now swear vengeance upon the provocateur, but "Dutch" is missing from the range.
Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman

More than once the charge of being a provocateur was leveled at Lenine and at Trotzky, but without justification, apparently.
Extract from : « Bolshevism » by John Spargo

Synonyms for provocateur

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