Invocation
noun
The act of asking for help or support especially from a god.
The priest made an invocation for divine guidance.
Often appears as...
- invocation of assistance
- invocation in prayer
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Religious
noun
The act of mentioning or referring to someone or something in support of your ideas.
In his speech, he made an invocation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas.
Often appears as...
- invocation of ideas
- invocation of principles
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Academic
noun
In computer programming, the process of calling a method or function.
The code causes an invocation of the display function.
Often appears as...
- invocation of methods
- invocation of functions
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Technical
noun
The act of asking for help or support especially from a god.
The priest made an invocation for divine guidance.
Often appears as...
- invocation of assistance
- invocation in prayer
Usage tips
Religious
noun
The act of mentioning or referring to someone or something in support of your ideas.
In his speech, he made an invocation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s ideas.
Often appears as...
- invocation of ideas
- invocation of principles
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In computer programming, the process of calling a method or function.
The code causes an invocation of the display function.
Often appears as...
- invocation of methods
- invocation of functions
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Spiritual Requests
Invocation in a religious context often implies humility and a request for divine help.
During the ceremony, the shaman's invocation sought ancestral spirits' guidance.
Pro Tip 2/3Ceremonial Beginnings
Religious or solemn events sometimes start with an invocation to set a respectful tone.
The gathering commenced with an invocation to bless the newlyweds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Deities
An invocation can address entities other than gods, like muses or spiritual forces.
The poet's invocation called upon the muse of epic poetry.
Pro Tip 1/3Spiritual Requests
Invocation in a religious context often implies humility and a request for divine help.
During the ceremony, the shaman's invocation sought ancestral spirits' guidance.
Pro Tip 2/3Ceremonial Beginnings
Religious or solemn events sometimes start with an invocation to set a respectful tone.
The gathering commenced with an invocation to bless the newlyweds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Deities
An invocation can address entities other than gods, like muses or spiritual forces.
The poet's invocation called upon the muse of epic poetry.
Pro Tip 1/3Spiritual Requests
Invocation in a religious context often implies humility and a request for divine help.
During the ceremony, the shaman's invocation sought ancestral spirits' guidance.
Pro Tip 2/3Ceremonial Beginnings
Religious or solemn events sometimes start with an invocation to set a respectful tone.
The gathering commenced with an invocation to bless the newlyweds.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Deities
An invocation can address entities other than gods, like muses or spiritual forces.
The poet's invocation called upon the muse of epic poetry.
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Margaret Wertheim: The...
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Margaret Wertheim: The...
that are the first signs of corals of being sick. And if the bleaching doesn't go away -- if the temperatures don't go down -- reefs start to die. A great deal of this has been happening in the Great Barrier Reef, particularly in coral reefs all over the world. This is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef.
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The beautiful math of...
world this is our invocation in crochet of a bleached reef we have an organization together called the Institute for figuring which is a little organization we started to promote to do projects about the aesthetic and poetic dimensions of Science and Mathematics and I went and put a little announcement
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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Florence Welch
English Musician
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
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Margaret MacMillan
Canadian Historian
George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.
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Pankaj Mishra
Indian Novelist
Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
Quote examples
Florence Welch
English Musician
I love performing outside because it's as if the heavens are open and the elements become part of the stage show as well - you know, the wind and the rain and the thunder. It's almost as if there's a sense of invocation in performance.
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Timothy Morton
English Philosopher
The trouble with ecological invocations of Nature is that they're like calling for a medieval tool, perhaps a portcullis or an arrow slit, to fix a modern problem.
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Margaret MacMillan
Canadian Historian
George W. Bush, judging by his repeated invocations, thinks that time will eventually prove that he was right. He is not alone in putting his faith in the future.
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David Ignatius
American Journalist
Politicians need to rethink their reflexive invocations of the Second Amendment and the idea that the gun lobby is too powerful to challenge.
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