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misinvocation

noun

Etymology

From mis- + invocation.

  1. derived from invocatio
  2. derived from invocacion
  3. inherited from invocacioun
  4. prefixed as misinvocation — “mis + invocation”

Definitions

  1. An invalid invocation.

    • 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).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for misinvocation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA