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invocation

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Example Sentences

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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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to invocation, such as: abracadabra, appeal, calling, command, conjuration, and entreaty.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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