evocation
nounEtymology From Middle French évocation.
1
The act of calling out or forth, or evoking.
- Schepisi makes it clear that the outlandish rules, the strict self-discipline, the body hatred, and erotophobia is destructive; it is doing no one any good. But since he is also presenting a (somewhat) loving evocation of his own past, this measure gets soft peddled.1982 February 13, Michael Bronski, “Boys from Catholic School”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 29, page 12:
- a stunningly atmospheric evocation of urban ennui2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 10:
- Derived terms
- evocationism
- Related terms
- evoke, invocation