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. See induction
   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

The Weeping Woman is an evocation of overwhelming anguish caused by the atrocities of war.

From Time

The evocation of Nazism to discredit one’s political rivals is, admittedly, a tired device.

From Time

His evocation of a civilization forced to confront its decline and eventual demise captures the creeping gloom of life in our climate-imperiled world—and his plea for long-term thinking in service of humankind’s future resonates.

From Time

Summer of 85 delights in romantic excess, ending up as an almost literal evocation of one of the songs on its era-specific soundtrack.

From Time

Top U.S. officials contribute with their daily evocation of saintly principles that the United States itself has often defied.

From The Daily Beast

Border Town, by Shen Congwen—a beautiful evocation of rural China in the 1930s.

From The Daily Beast

The best thing about it is its evocation of civilian life in the 1940s, both in the U.S. and Australia.

From The Daily Beast

For all the evocation of history, it is important to note that the groups sponsoring these rallies are newly created.

From The Daily Beast

And an embellished event can be closer to the truth than factual precision, if its evocation is infused with intuitive wisdom.

From The Daily Beast

For such intensity of evocation is as contagious as an enthusiasm or a panic.

From Project Gutenberg

In strictness, the business of poetry should not be called imitation at all, but rather evocation.

From Project Gutenberg

Lizzie sat silent, spellbound, as she listened, by the sudden evocation of Mr. Jackson Benn.

From Project Gutenberg

Never was ripe skill less mechanical, and never was the faculty of perpetual evocation less addicted to prudent economies.

From Project Gutenberg

As if answering an evocation, the opals passed before him in a vision.

From Project Gutenberg