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Explain what Reverend Hale means when he says, "I cannot think God be provoked so grandly by such a petty cause" in the book The Crucible?

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Hale denounces the proceedings because it is clear that the girls are not telling the truth in their testimony.
To denounce something is to explain why you disagree with it.
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