All 3 Uses of
invocation
in
David Copperfield
- I now approach a period of my life, which I can never lose the remembrance of, while I remember anything: and the recollection of which has often, without my invocation, come before me like a ghost, and haunted happier times.†
Chpt 10-12 *
- This was an invocation to Steerforth to place himself under her hands; who, accordingly, sat himself down, with his back to the table, and his laughing face towards me, and submitted his head to her inspection, evidently for no other purpose than our entertainment.†
Chpt 22-24
- Without attending to this invocation, we stood by, until he put up his pocket-handkerchief, pulled up his shirt-collar, and, to delude any person in the neighbourhood who might have been observing him, hummed a tune with his hat very much on one side.†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(invocation as in: the minister's invocation) asking for supernatural help -- especially a prayer to God