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Meanings of evocation in English
Synonyms
Examples for "summoning"
Examples for "summoning"
1
A court statement dated Jan. 22 summoning her was published on Tuesday.
2
She called on her power, summoning it from her heart and marrowbones.
3
He sat in his car for a long time, summoning his energy.
4
I mean it certainly takes a crack at summoning up mid-century discontents.
5
Later on in the evening, summoning Bourrienne, the victor said to him:
Usage of evocation in English
1
Which means that the emphasis is as much on evocation as evaluation.
2
On the whole, however, the evocation of Pannonica is rich and revealing.
3
In a moment his rival's evocation became to him impossible to bear.
4
They were a gay group of men, and hospitality was their evocation.
5
That was the problem with not being too great at evocation.
6
His recent evocation of Albanian law is, for him, entirely consistent and appropriate.
7
So this is a great evocation of Katharine Hepburn's particular idiolect.
8
This book is also a wonderful evocation of a lost generation.
9
The meticulous evocation of period detail reflects the film's elegiac attitude to ephemera.
10
Names of places are notoriously rich in their evocation of emotion.
11
It is the latter composition that contains a tremendous evocation of a storm.
12
The film's chief asset is its superbly atmospheric evocation of its period milieu.
13
The sound continued as before, but its power of evocation lessened.
14
It is a dazzling display of luminous atoms, a kind of pantheistic evocation.
15
My evocation died away, and the entity's cloak settled down again.
16
Hollis opens with an evocation of the London poetry scene of a century ago.
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Evocation through the time
Evocation across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common