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evocation
[ ev-uh-key-shuhn, ee-voh-key- ]
noun
- an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth:
the evocation of old memories.
- Law. (formerly) an action of a court in summoning a case from another, usually lower, court for purposes of complete review and decision, as on an appeal in which the issue is incidental or procedural and the court of first instance has not yet rendered a decision on its merits; the removal of a case from one court to another.
evocation
/ ˌɛvəˈkeɪʃən /
noun
- the act or an instance of evoking
- French law the transference of a case from an inferior court for adjudication by a higher tribunal
- another word for induction
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Example Sentences
Top U.S. officials contribute with their daily evocation of saintly principles that the United States itself has often defied.
Border Town, by Shen Congwen—a beautiful evocation of rural China in the 1930s.
The best thing about it is its evocation of civilian life in the 1940s, both in the U.S. and Australia.
For all the evocation of history, it is important to note that the groups sponsoring these rallies are newly created.
And an embellished event can be closer to the truth than factual precision, if its evocation is infused with intuitive wisdom.
For such intensity of evocation is as contagious as an enthusiasm or a panic.
In strictness, the business of poetry should not be called imitation at all, but rather evocation.
Lizzie sat silent, spellbound, as she listened, by the sudden evocation of Mr. Jackson Benn.
Never was ripe skill less mechanical, and never was the faculty of perpetual evocation less addicted to prudent economies.
As if answering an evocation, the opals passed before him in a vision.
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