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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,
application,
canvass,
address,
appeal,
apostrophe;
imprecation;
rogation;
proposal,
proposition.
orison
etc.
(worship)
990;
incantation
etc.
(spell)
993.
mendicancy;
asking,
begging
etc.
v.;
postulation,
solicitation,
invitation,
entreaty,
importunity,
supplication,
instance,
impetration†,
imploration†,
obsecration†,
obtestation†,
invocation,
interpellation.
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Roget 586:
allocution,
alloquy†,
address;
speech
etc.
582;
apostrophe,
interpellation,
appeal,
invocation,
salutation;
word in the ear.
[Feigned dialogue]
dialogism†.
platform
etc.
542;
plank;
audience
etc.
(interview)
588.
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Roget 990:
worship,
adoration,
devotion,
aspiration,
homage,
service,
humiliation;
kneeling,
genuflection,
prostration.
prayer,
invocation,
supplication,
rogation,
intercession,
orison,
holy breathing;
petition
etc.
(request)
765;
collect,
litany,
Lord's prayer,
paternoster [Lat.];
beadroll†;
latria†,
dulia†,
hyperdulia†,
vigils;
revival;
cult;
anxious meeting,
camp meeting;
ebenezer,
virginal.
thanksgiving;
giving thanks,
returning thanks;
grace,
praise,
glorification,
benediction,
doxology,
hosanna;
hallelujah,
allelujah†;
Te Deum [Lat.],
non nobis Domine [Lat.],
nunc dimittis [Lat.];
paean;
benschen [G.];
Ave Maria,
O Salutaris,
Sanctus [Lat.],
The Annunciation,
Tersanctus,
Trisagion.
psalm,
psalmody;
hymn,
plain song,
chant,
chaunt,
response,
anthem,
motet;
antiphon†,
antiphony.
oblation,
sacrifice,
incense,
libation;
burnt offering,
heave offering,
votive offering;
offertory.
discipline;
self-discipline,
self-examination,
self-denial;
fasting.
divine service,
office,
duty;
exercises;
morning prayer;
mass,
matins,
evensong,
vespers;
undernsong†,
tierce†;
holyday
etc.
(rites)
998.
worshipper,
congregation,
communicant,
celebrant.
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2 invocation
An incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil.
3 invocation
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, benediction, benison, beseechment, bid, bidding, bidding prayer, blessing, breviary, call, calling, calling forth, celebration, chaplet, circumcision, clamor, collect, communion, confession, confirmation, conjuration, conjurement, contemplation, convocation, cry, devotions, entreaty, evocation, exorcisation, exorcism, exsufflation, grace, high celebration, impetration, imploration, imploring, imprecation, incantation, incense, indent, intercession, invocation of saints, invocatory plea, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, meditation, nod, obsecration, obtestation, orison, pax, petition, plea, prayer, prayer wheel, preconization, processional, reciting the rosary, requisition, rogation, rosary, silent prayer, suit, summons, supplication, telling of beads, thanks, thanksgiving, the confessional, the confessionary ... show more.
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