Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misinvocation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: mis-in-vo-ca-tion
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An invalid invocation.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

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

Etymology

From mis- + invocation.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: mis

Usage

Inflected Forms

misinvocations (plural)

Questions

What does misinvocation mean?: An invalid invocation.
Where does misinvocation come from?: From mis- + invocation.

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