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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of evoking.
  • noun Creation anew through the power of the memory or imagination.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun In civil law, the removal of a suit from an inferior to a superior tribunal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of calling out or forth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations
  • noun stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors
  • noun imaginative re-creation

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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.

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  • 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.

    BookBrowse Previews April Books 2009

  • 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.

    Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi by Geoff Dyer: Book summary 2010

  • I know he's not the characters in his songs, but the evocation is strong, ain't it?

    Music (For Robots): September 2006 Archives 2006

  • I know he's not the characters in his songs, but the evocation is strong, ain't it?

    A Grand Weeper (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • The evocation is a funky post-apocalyptic underwater future set in a scene from the inside cover of Parliament's

    BrooklynRadio.net 2010

  • 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.

    PoetryFoundation.org 2009

  • He never however renounced a kind of evocation, a calling forth that truly defines deconstruction.

    Jacques Derrida Lawlor, Leonard 2006

  • 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.

    'The Invention of Love': An Exchange Stoppard, Tom 2000

  • With this specific kind of evocation of dread and allure, it has to be something off of Massive Attack's

    PopMatters 2009

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  • 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.

    February 26, 2012