misinvocation — अंग्रेज़ी शब्दकोश

संज्ञा

1. An invalid invocation.

   प्रयोग

   • गणनीय
   • अगणनीय

   उदाहरण

   If the circumstances are not in order, the uttering of a performative is a “misinvocation" and the act is disallowed.

   अधिक उदाहरण (2)

   To rationalize their self-validating procedure, they even misinvoke Thomas Kuhn's notion of "normal science,” apparently unaware that a like misinvocation could even legitimate exorcism and other forms of sheer quackery.

   To use an example from Austin, when one promises a donkey to give it a carrot with no intention of doing so, two sorts of infelicities are in play: an insincerity and a misinvocation (23).