Invoke vs Implore - What's the difference?
invoke | implore |
To call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.
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To appeal for validation to a (notably cited) authority.
To conjure up with incantations.
To bring about as an inevitable consequence.
To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude.
(computing) To cause (a program or subroutine) to execute.
* C++ lets you invoke an operator function either by calling the function or by using the overloaded operator with its usual syntax. — Stephen Prata.
To beg urgently or earnestly.
* Shakespeare
To call upon or pray to earnestly; to entreat.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between invoke and implore
is that invoke is to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance while implore is to beg urgently or earnestly.invoke
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Alternative forms
* envokeVerb
(invok)- In certain Christian circles invoking the Bible constitutes irrefutable proof.
- This satanist ritual invokes Beelzebub.
- Blasphemy is taboo as it may invoke divine wrath.
- The envoy invoked the King of Kings's magnanimity to reduce his province's tribute after another draught.
- Interactive programs let the users enter choices and invoke the corresponding routines.
Synonyms
* invocate * (sense) call, execute, runDerived terms
* invokerExternal links
* *implore
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Verb
(implor)- I kneel, and then implore her blessing.
- Imploring all the gods that reign above.