provocation
B1CEFR level
18/100Rarity: common
TechnicalRegister
Conduct causing a sudden loss of self-control that historically reduced murder to manslaughter.
The defence of provocation has been replaced in England by the partial defence of loss of control.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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