What is another word for invocation?

Pronunciation: [ɪnvə͡ʊkˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Invocations are words or phrases used to summon or call upon some higher power or entity. Synonyms for invocation include prayer, supplication, benediction, appeal, entreaty, petition, and plea. All of these words can be used to express a plea for help or guidance from a wiser source. An invocation can also be used to ask for protection, strength, or guidance from a divine power. The choice of words used to invoke depends on the context and the specific purpose of the invocation, but all serve the purpose of attempting to reach a higher power or divine force for assistance.

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What are the hypernyms for Invocation?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • hypernyms for invocation (as nouns)

    • communication
      rogation.

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What are the opposite words for invocation?

The word "invocation" typically refers to the act of summoning or appealing to a higher power or authority. Some antonyms for this term might include "dismissal," "repudiation," or "disavowal." Each of these words conveys a sense of rejection or refusal, indicating a lack of interest or belief in the concept of invoking higher powers. Other potential antonyms might include "rejection," "renunciation," or "denial," all of which suggest a deliberate act of turning away from or disowning a particular belief or practice. Overall, the antonyms for "invocation" tend to emphasize the idea of disbelief or non-participation.

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Usage examples for Invocation

There will be no answer to your invocation, unless you can say that your "spirit is at peace with all," as they can who are already in "their golden day" in Paradise.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
Her last words contain an invocation to himself which has all the passion of earthly tenderness, and all the solemnity of a prayer.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr
The prayer is an invocation to the justice, and to the sympathy of Christ.
"A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)"
Mrs. Sutherland Orr

Famous quotes with Invocation

  • Some people, myself included, advocated foreign intervention in Bosnia and Kosovo while opposing our adventure in Iraq. Sam Moyn might find this inconsistent, but (on this occasion at least) it is the world that is inconsistent, not us. During the Balkan wars individuals’ rights were under ascertainable threat in real time. Outside intervention could make a difference, and it did. This was not the case in Iraq. We should always be suspicious of the invocation of universal “rights” as a cover for sectional interests. But it doesn’t follow from this that talk of rights is “really” always about something else. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn’t. How, then, should we adjust our response? Well, there is a serviceable Keynesian answer to that: “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?”
    Tony Judt
  • The clangor of the swords had died away, the shouting of the slaughter was hushed; silence lay on the red-stained snow. The bleak pale sun that glittered so blindingly from the ice-fields and the snow-covered plains struck sheens of silver from rent corselet and broken blade, where the dead lay as they had fallen. The nerveless hand yet gripped the broken hilt; helmeted heads back-drawn in the death-throes, tilted red beards and golden beards grimly upward, as if in last invocation to Ymir the frost-giant, god of a warrior-race...
    Robert E. Howard
  • Everyone has the right to their own opinion about a ritual, and to their own aesthetics. There's generally at least one invocation in every ritual that I could personally do without.
    Starhawk
  • When Marinetti founded Futurism in 1909, he called for ‘incendiary violence’ that might drive Italy and Italians out of the ‘fetid somnolence’ of . He incited Futurists and their allies to the destruction of museums, monuments, and universities—to decimate everything that ‘stank of the past’… All of this was suffused with aggression and violence, with an appeal to slaps and blows, to culminate in an invocation to what he called the ‘beauty of battle,’ and the ‘hygiene of war.’
    Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

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