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  • adjective Not having been evoked.

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un- +‎ evoked

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Examples

  • Then, taking ordinary magnifiers, I began upon that part of the sign where, if anything remained unevoked, it would be found.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

  • Of the slumbering power that till recently lay hidden in coal and water, and which has so incalculably multiplied the material strength of man, much has been said; but we fail to appreciate the unevoked fund of intellect upon which he has additionally to draw.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

  • But even if — imagining a man quite exempt from all influences, examining only his momentary action in the present, unevoked by any cause — we were to admit so infinitely small a remainder of inevitability as equaled zero, we should even then not have arrived at the conception of complete freedom in man, for a being uninfluenced by the external world, standing outside of time and independent of cause, is no longer a man.

    War and Peace 2003

  • But even if -- imagining a man quite exempt from all influences, examining only his momentary action in the present, unevoked by any cause -- we were to admit so infinitely small a remainder of inevitability as equaled zero, we should even then not have arrived at the conception of complete freedom in man, for a being uninfluenced by the external world, standing outside of time and independent of cause, is no longer a man.

    War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869

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