invoked
adjective
(of a deity, saint, Muse, etc.) petitioned, prayed to, or called upon for help or aid.
uninvoked
-
a word derived from
invoked.
Example Sentences
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While most states now have some kind of computer-crime laws, those laws often go uninvoked, largely because such crimes are still rare and prosecutors have little experience with them.
From Time Magazine Archive
This angel fell into disrepair; and some suspicions were entertained that he designed visiting, uninvoked, the surface of the earth.
From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous
The phantoms of the past are dead for thee; So let them ever uninvoked remain, And be thou calm, till death shall set thee free.
From Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems by W. E. (William Edmondstoune) Aytoun
The shadowy companions who stood ever between him and solitude remained uninvoked.
From A Lost Leader by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
But the swirling shoulder, the long ridge across the pool, and the steady strain: you are into a twelve-pounder, and the Devil is uninvoked.
From Love and Lucy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
