单词 | invocation |
释义 | invocationWord family nouninvocationadjectiveinvocatory Religionin·vo·ca·tion /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/ noun 1. the invocation American EnglishAmE a speech or prayer at the beginning of a ceremony or meeting 〔仪式或集会开始时的〕发言,祷文 Examples from the Corpus the invocation• Rabbi Gutterman gave the invocation at the graduation ceremony. 2. RRHELP[countableC, uncountableU] literary a request for help, especially from a god 〔尤指向神的〕求助 Examples from the Corpus invocation• Among other functions, priestesses probably chanted prayers and invocations to the deities.• At times, feminist invocations of psychology ignore or even reproduce traditional psychology's gender biases.• The existence of the covenant, however, provides the possibility of its future invocation.• Will they see this as largely superstitious - the invocation of a kind of magic? |
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