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invocation

/in-vuh-key-shuhn/US // ˌɪn vəˈkeɪ ʃən //UK // (ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən) //

援引,援用,援救,援款

Related Words

hocus-pocus变戏法,骗人,骗人的东西,骗局abracadabra罡风,胡言乱语,罡气,胡言乱语的人hoodoo兜兜转转,兜售,兜率,兜帽calling呼叫,召唤,呼叫方式,呼叫呼叫command指挥部,指挥,命令,指令summons传票,传唤,传讯,传召supplication祈求,祈祷,祈愿,祈福entreaty恳求,恳请,恳切希望,哀求voodoo巫毒,巫毒症,巫术,巫毒术appeal呼吁,上诉,上訴,上诉法院petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示rune符文,符石,符咒,符码conjuration变形术,魔术,变形,变身mumbo jumbo胡说八道,胡言乱语,糊涂虫,莫须有的罪名beseeching恳求,求助,祈求,恳请

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of invoking or calling upon a deity, spirit, etc., for aid, protection, inspiration, or the like; supplication.
    • : any petitioning or supplication for help or aid.
    • : a form of prayer invoking God's presence, especially one said at the beginning of a religious service or public ceremony.
    • : an entreaty for aid and guidance from a Muse, deity, etc., at the beginning of an epic or epiclike poem.
    • : the act of calling upon a spirit by incantation.
    • : the magic formula used to conjure up a spirit; incantation.
    • : the act of calling upon or referring to something, as a concept or document, for support and justification in a particular circumstance.
    • : the enforcing or use of a legal or moral precept or right.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounprayer
Synonyms
abracadabra罡风,胡言乱语,罡气,胡言乱语的人appeal呼吁,上诉,上訴,上诉法院calling呼叫,召唤,呼叫方式,呼叫呼叫command指挥部,指挥,命令,指令conjuration变形术,魔术,变形,变身entreaty恳求,恳请,恳切希望,哀求hocus-pocus变戏法,骗人,骗人的东西,骗局hoodoo兜兜转转,兜售,兜率,兜帽petition请愿书,呈请书,请愿,请示rune符文,符石,符咒,符码summons传票,传唤,传讯,传召supplication祈求,祈祷,祈愿,祈福voodoo巫毒,巫毒症,巫术,巫毒术beseeching恳求,求助,祈求,恳请mumbo jumbo胡说八道,胡言乱语,糊涂虫,莫须有的罪名

Examples

  • Other employees report repeated invocations of empathy from upper management in staff meetings, but little training on how to implement it with those they supervise.

  • This new Springsteen on Broadway—a slight reimagining for a grand reopening—is not so much a reflection of what we’ve lost as an invocation to step boldly toward all that’s left to be found.

  • Either way, the earnest invocation of an idealized politician being either a stacked savior or a wine-sipping bestie makes a mockery of the idea that politicians are nothing more than fellow citizens chosen for a short time to serve the public good.

  • Recall the right-wing invocation of “Flight 93” in the lead-up to the 2016 election.

  • In order for you to call this service from Google Sheets it must allow unauthenticated invocations.

  • That word “denialism” is particularly profane, with its unsubtle invocation of the Holocaust.

  • Feminists should be concerned about the invocation of traditional roles.

  • I was asked by then President-elect Obama to deliver the invocation at the opening inaugural event.

  • When science was young, the invocation of miracles was commonplace.

  • This “promiscuous” invocation of religious freedom would deny equal rights to those with different religious convictions—or none.

  • Therefore the principal object of our invocation of the saints ought to be the obtaining of their help in following their example.

  • Country folk, journeying by the street below, looked up with lips that whispered invocation.

  • The invocation, "Queen conceived without the stain of original sin," was added to the Litany of Loreto.

  • But what of the love, however expressed, in the lyrical invocation to the brown liqueur?

  • A final howl of invocation resulted in complete failure, whereupon it was decided that Baal-Zeboub had business elsewhere.

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