Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Invocatory; invoking.
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Examples
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They're in front of a giant chessboard, which doesn't make sense, but it's a nice decoration and invocative of Alice in Wonderland so whatever.
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Names have invocative and evocative properties to them, or do at least from entering through the ears (hearing) and eyes (reading) of the beholders
Making Light: Scholarly works to avoid citing at all costs 2010
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While descriptive and invocative, the sentences are spartan and clean, propelling the reader that much more quickly through the narrative.
Archive 2009-06-01 Fred Perry 2009
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While descriptive and invocative, the sentences are spartan and clean, propelling the reader that much more quickly through the narrative.
Dark Gods Fred Perry 2009
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One of the mods wrote a invocative piece about certain identifible characters that emerged on internet forums.
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A lot of good writers choose to repeat phrases within a single paragraph for rhythmic reasons, which can bring a passage an invocative feel.
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A lot of good writers choose to repeat phrases within a single paragraph for rhythmic reasons, which can bring a passage an invocative feel.
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Blessings may be divided into two classes, viz: invocative and constitutive.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Del Fortis hesitated a moment, -- then bowed low to the ground; -- anon, lifting himself, raised one hand with an invocative gesture of profound solemnity.
Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889
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She was waving her hand, softly, in a gesture invocative of caution; but her eyes smiled a welcome to him.
The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883
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