Both Uses
invocation
in
Killing Kennedy
(Edited)
- On one occasion, blue smoke poured from the lectern during the invocation, and there was fear that it was a bomb.
p. 10.9 *invocation = prayer
- The ceremony started late, the invocation by Cardinal Richard Cushing was extremely long, and the eighty-six-year-old poet Robert Frost was so blinded by the sun that he was unable to read the special verses he'd written for the occasion.
p. 12.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(invocation) calling upon someone or something -- often for help or support -- especially a prayer to God
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)