Proclaim vs Invoke - What's the difference?
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To excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe.
To announce or declare.
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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.
Proclaim is a related term of invoke.
As verbs the difference between proclaim and invoke
is that proclaim is to excitedly, verbosely and candidly describe while invoke is to call upon (a person, especially a god) for help, assistance or guidance.proclaim
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(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.