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- Dictionaryevocation/ˌiːvə(ʊ)ˈkeɪʃn/
noun
- 1. the act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory, or image to the conscious mind: "the vivid evocation of stillness in the title poem"
- 2. the action of invoking a spirit or deity: "the evocation of wandering spirits"
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EVOCATION definition: 1. the fact of making someone remember or imagine something: 2. the fact of making someone…. Learn more.
The meaning of EVOCATION is the act or fact of evoking : summoning. How to use evocation in a sentence.
Evocation definition: an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth. See examples of EVOCATION used in a sentence.
EVOCATION meaning: 1. the fact of making someone remember or imagine something: 2. the fact of making someone…. Learn more.
Does the taste of a particular candy bar suddenly whisk you back to an earlier time in your life? That's an evocation, the summoning, usually unconscious, of a memory or emotional state caused by a particular stimulus.
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.
noun. /ˌiːvəʊˈkeɪʃn/ [countable, uncountable] (formal) the act of bringing a feeling, a memory or an image into your mind. a brilliant evocation of childhood in the 1940s. Take your English to the next level. The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words.
