invocation — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being, especially prayer offered to a divine being.

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2. A call or summons, especially a judicial call, demand, or order.

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   Sinonimi

   citation

   Esempi

   the invocation of papers or evidence into court

3. An act of invoking or claiming a legal right.

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   McNeil (D) contended that his courtroom appearance with an attorney for the West Allis crime constituted an invocation of his Miranda right to counsel and that his subsequent waiver during police-initiated questioning regarding the Caledonia crime was invalid.

   As a matter of legal principle, the State should report whether all the necessary conditions for the invocation of the right of self-defense were existent.

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   This chapter might have been titled “The First 'First Civil Right'”: before Richard Nixon's 1968 invocation of the right to protection from (black) crime, Truman Democrats advocated protection from (white) lawlessness as the first essential right.

4. The act of invoking, such as a function call.

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Sostantivo

1. a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service

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   supplication

   Termini più generali

   prayerpetitionorison

2. an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil

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   incantationconjuration

3. calling up a spirit or devil

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   conjuringconjurationconjury

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   magicthaumaturgy

4. the act of appealing for help

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   implementationeffectuation