Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of evoking.
- n. Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A calling or bringing from concealment; a calling forth: as, among the ancient Romans, the evocation of the gods of a besieged city to join the besiegers.
- n. In civil law, the removal of a suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of calling out or forth.
WordNet 3.0
- n. calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
- n. stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
- n. imaginative re-creation
Examples
“Nothing Geoff Dyer has written before is as wonderfully unbridled, as dead-on in evocation of place, longing, and the possibility of neurotic enlightenment, as irrepressibly entertaining as Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.”
“I know he's not the characters in his songs, but the evocation is strong, ain't it?”
“The evocation is a funky post-apocalyptic underwater future set in a scene from the inside cover of Parliament's”
“I stared into the pallid milk of dawn and the words came out aloud: "To see and to be." in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions of truth in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed; and I believe in [several] doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed down from early times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical practices.”
“He never however renounced a kind of evocation, a calling forth that truly defines deconstruction.”
“As for enlisting the resourceful Wilma production for being "more evocative of the real-life Housman's seething emotions than the text itself," Mr. Mendelsohn unluckily picks an evocation which is prescribed in the stage directions.”
“With this specific kind of evocation of dread and allure, it has to be something off of Massive Attack's”
“Myung Dong refers to a high-rent, youth-oriented shopping district in Seoul, thus "1st Avenue" is a kind of evocation of both Fifth Avenue and SoHo.”
“Avenue "is a kind of evocation of both Fifth Avenue and SoHo.”
“I ascend into its column and find an evocation of unfiltered being.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘evocation’.
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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You're a SUPER Hero!
List as many "super" powers as you can think of! Anything that would be called for example "super strength", please remove the first word and list only the second word Thanks!
flight, flying, hovering, strength, invisibility, intelligence, psychic, telekinesis, smell, touch, taste, hearing and 47 more...
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I, Claudius
Words taken from I, Claudius by Robert Graves.
evocation, aureus, sestertii, denarii, assegai, pilum, framea, sibyl, propitiatory, duenna, tyrannicide, maggoty and 136 more...
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
gurns, bok, chimney breast, dichotomy, Platonic form, filthy, Platonic Form, mathematics, BAM, skirls, clarity, blundering and 298 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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Vocab
All the words I've come across whose definitions I did not know then.
aberration, abrogate, abscond, abstruse, acolyte, actuate, adulation, advert, aggrandize, aggro, ague, alimony and 273 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (E)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
earthwork, easter egg, ebony, eclair, eclipse, effervescence, effigy, egret, elegant, elixir, ellipse, elude and 52 more...
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emiliana's list
Words I have come across, words that have stuck with me over time, words that I am not familiar with but suddenly see or hear in different contexts that drive me crazy because I can't wrap my littl...
tricky, trickily, out of sorts, sprachgefuhl, rodomontade, mordant, perusing, filicide, curiosity, latent, evocation, unwarranted and 3 more...
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Words to Revisit
sardonic, profligate, laconic, sententious, qua, judicious, promulgate, obtrude, nugatory, aphorism, apprehend, inimical and 3 more...
Tweets
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Louises The snow looked like a fall of ash. History's given snow new evocation options: tickertape parades; Nazi crematoria; World Cup Finals; 9/11 fallout. From "The Last Werewolf" by Glen Duncan. Feb 25, 2012