All 10 Uses
evoke
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Native Son
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- Every slight movement in the street evoked a casual curiosity in him.†
Book 1 *evoked = called forth or caused
- It seemed that her actions had evoked fear and shame in him.†
Book 2
- In his feelings he could not tell the difference between what this man evoked in him and what he had read in the papers" the love of his own kind and the hate of others made him feel equally guilty now.†
Book 3
- There were times when he did hear echoes, but always they were couched in tones which, living as a Negro, he could not answer or accept without losing face with the world which had first evoked in him the song of manhood.†
Book 3
- His talking to Max had evoked again in him that urge to talk, to tell, to try to make his feelings known.†
Book 3
- And with but a few minutes between him and the beginning of judgment, the obscure longing to possess the thing which Max had dimly evoked in him was still a motive.†
Book 3
- Many times, when alone after Max had left him, he wondered wistfully if there was not a set of words which he had in common with others, words which would evoke in others a sense of the same fire that smoldered in him.†
Book 3evoke = call forth or cause
- Did those white bones lying on that table evoke the gasp of horror that went up from the nation?†
Book 3
- "Of all things, men do not like to feel that they are guilty of wrong, and if you make them feel guilt, they will try desperately to justify it on any grounds" but, failing that, and seeing no immediate solution that will set things right without too much cost to their lives and property, they will kill that which evoked in them the condemning sense of guilt.†
Book 3evoked = called forth or caused
- That had evoked in Bigger a sense of his worth almost as keen as that which Max had roused in him during the long talk that night.†
Book 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(evoke) to call forth or cause -- typically to arouse an emotion or bring a memory to mind
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)