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invocation

noun

1 invocation

A prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service.

synonym: supplication.

Roget 765: request, requisition; claim etc. (demand) 741; petition, suit, prayer; begging letter, round robin.    motion, overture, ... show more

Roget 586: allocution, alloquy, address; speech etc. 582; apostrophe, interpellation, appeal, invocation, salutation; word in the ear.    [Feigned dialogue] ... show more

Roget 990: worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation; kneeling, genuflection, prostration.    prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, ... show more

2 invocation

An incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil.

3 invocation

Calling up a spirit or devil.

synonyms: conjuration, conjuring, conjury.

Dutch: geestenbezwering

4 invocation

The act of appealing for help.

Dutch: incantatie


Moby thesaurus: Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster, adjuration, agape, aid prayer, appeal, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, beadroll, beads, beck, beck and call, benedicite ... show more.

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