incantatory
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The incantatory prose, translated by David McKay, makes ordinary aspects of marital life feel newly discovered.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 3, 2025
In 2021, a slim, incantatory novel about a West African Allied regiment in World War I won the International Booker Prize, and the world was introduced to 55-year-old French Senegalese author and scholar David Diop.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 13, 2023
Brendan Shay Basham’s debut novel is an incantatory trip through place and time, fueled by grief and animated by magic.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2023
Among the new pieces, Barnes’s “Invocation,” which turns Claude McKay’s poetic address to an “Ancestral Spirit” into an incantatory refrain, drew intense applause.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
He cleared his throat, his eyes gleaming and his voice taking on a deep, incantatory quality, as though he had told the story many, many times.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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