Both Uses of
evoke
in
The Idiot
- "Old Bielokonski" listened to all the fevered and despairing lamentations of Lizabetha Prokofievna without the least emotion; the tears of this sorrowful mother did not evoke answering sighs—in fact, she laughed at her.†
Chpt 4.5 *evoke = call forth or cause
- A few more words of explanation followed, words which were spoken without the smallest excitement by his companion, but which evoked the greatest agitation in the prince; and it was discovered that two old ladies to whose care the prince had been left by Pavlicheff, and who lived at Zlatoverhoff, were also relations of Ivan Petrovitch.†
Chpt 4.7evoked = called forth or caused
Definition:
to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind