invocation

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in·vo·ca·tion /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/ noun  1. the invocation American English 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2. RRHELP[countable, uncountable] literary a request for help, especially from a god 〔尤指向神的〕求助

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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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invocation
in‧vo‧ca‧tion /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃən/ noun
1. the invocation American English a speech or prayer at the beginning of a ceremony or meeting
2. [uncountable and countable] literary a request for help, especially from a god

in·vo·ca·tionBrE /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃn/ 🔊NAmE /ˌɪnvəˈkeɪʃn/ 🔊 noun [uncountable, countable] (formal) the act of asking for help, from a god or from a person in authority; the act of referring to sth or of calling for sth to appear （向神或权威人士的）求助；祈祷(computing 计算机) the act of making a particular function start 调用；启用