invoke
verb (used with object)
to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for.
invoker
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a word derived from
invoke.
Example Sentences
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His closest friends on Capitol Hill are Representative Justin Amash, the Republican turned independent from Michigan who is also a frequent invoker of constitutional principle, and Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2020
That sparked a response from "The View" co-host, who took to Twitter on Monday and urged Klobuchar to not invoker her father during the 2020 election.
From Fox News ● May 28, 2019
And after such an oration the young minister would go away with a proud sense of duty well performed, burning with his own evangel, and liking David well for being the invoker of his enthusiasm.
From Prisoners of Conscience by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
Antony Ferrara, invoker of nameless horrors, shrank before him—before the primitive Celtic man whom unwittingly he had invoked.
From Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
Then the invoker got up and extinguished the light in the hall, so that no glimmer might come through the slit under the door.
From The Celtic Twilight by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
