invocation

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Make no mistake: Rick Warren delivering the invocation is absolutely terrible, and a slap in the face to gays everywhere.

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  1. noun The act or an instance of invoking, especially an appeal to a higher power for assistance.
  2. noun A prayer or other formula used in invoking, as at the opening of a religious service.
  3. noun The act of conjuring up a spirit by incantation.
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  • "Asherat!" A curse or invocation, the word exploded from Severio's lips and the birch-rods cut the air again, flailing my back. —  Jacqueline Carey - Kushiel 02 - Kushiel's Chosen
  • Lord Cromer felt, and felt rightly, that this invocation was his best epitaph. —  The Adventure of Living
  • WASHINGTON (CNN) - The Obama team has acknowledged that inviting pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation was a "stumble. '" —  CNN Political Ticker
  • Make no mistake: Rick Warren delivering the invocation is absolutely terrible, and a slap in the face to gays everywhere. —  Multi Medium
  • So in asking whether inviting Warren to lead the invocation is akin to inviting a segregationist to do so, we are also asking whether the vast majority of Americans are akin to segregationists. —  Independent Gay Forum -
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  1. Middle English invocacion, from Old French, from Latin invocātiō, invocātiōn-, from invocātus, past participle of invocāre, to invoke; see invoke.

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  1. = French invocation = Provencal invocacio, envocation = Spanish invocacion = Portuguese invocação = Italian invocazione, from Latin invocatio(n-), from invocare, call upon: see invoke, invocate.
 

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