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Evocation   /ˌivoʊkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Evocation

noun
1.
Imaginative re-creation.
2.
Calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations.  Synonym: summoning.
3.
Stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors.  Synonyms: elicitation, induction.





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... against the actual Bill which the {192} Government had passed for the benefit of English Catholics. The bigoted bodies, societies, and committees in Scotland soon found their parallels in England. The English Protestant Association rose into being like some sudden evocation of a wizard, and chose for its head and leader the man who had made himself conspicuous as the head and leader of the movement in ...
— A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4) • Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy


Words linked to "Evocation" :   imagery, imaging, input, exorcism, stimulation, evoke, stimulus, mental imagery, invocation, dispossession, stimulant, conjuring, conjury, imagination, conjuration


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