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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

UNPROVOKED

a. 1. Not provoked; not incited; applied to persons.
2. Not proceeding from provocation or just cause; as an unprovoked attack.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

unprovoked

un pro voked |ˌənprəˈvōkt ˌənprəˈvoʊkt | adjective (of an attack, or a display of aggression or emotion ) not caused by anything done or said: acts of unprovoked aggression. (of a person ) not provoked to do something.

 

Oxford Dictionary

unprovoked

un |pro ¦voked |ʌnprəˈvəʊkt | adjective carried out, occurring, or acting without direct provocation: an unprovoked attack on an innocent man.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

unprovoked

n pro v ked /-t /形容詞 〈攻撃などが 〉挑発されたわけではない, 正当な理由がない .