evocation

[ ev-uh-key-shuhn, ee-voh-key- ]

noun

1. an act or instance of evoking; a calling forth:

   the evocation of old memories.

2. Law. (formerly) an action of a court in summoning a case from another, usually lower, court for purposes of complete review and decision, as on an appeal in which the issue is incidental or procedural and the court of first instance has not yet rendered a decision on its merits; the removal of a case from one court to another.

evocation

/ ˌɛvəˈkeɪʃən /

noun

1. the act or an instance of evoking
2. French law the transference of a case from an inferior court for adjudication by a higher tribunal
3. another word for induction

Word History and Origins

Origin of evocation¹

1400–50; late Middle English evocacioun < Latin ēvocātiōn- (stem of ēvocātiō ) calling forth, out, equivalent to ēvocāt ( us ) (past participle of ēvocāre to evoke ) + -iōn- -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of evocation¹

C17: from Latin ēvocātiō a calling forth, from ēvocāre to evoke

Example Sentences

In its gorgeous, glorious evocation of autumn days and, especially, nights, its Vince Guaraldi score and Bill Melendez animation, it takes Schulz’s art somewhere new without betraying it; perhaps most important, Cathy Steinberg is back from “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as the voice of Sally Brown, the series’ secret star.

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Director Ross, who spent years as a photographer and teacher, came close to reinventing documentaries with his superb 2018 debut “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” an evocation of Alabamian Black life that eliminated the line between viewer and subject.

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“A lot of the big turning points in the movie are based on truth,” Móglaí Bap says of the movie’s evocation of their rise.

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A year before, the newly opened Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles had acquired Viola’s slightly earlier “Room for St. John of the Cross,” a noisy evocation of spiritual disruptions in modern life as prophesied by a 16th Century Spanish mystic.

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The film is an evocation of character, place and time, the tempo alternating between moody and lively, like our central odd couple, laconic Benny and chatterbox Kathy.

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