invoke vs evoke
Definitions
verb
- cite as an authority; resort to
- request earnestly (something from somebody); ask for aid or protection
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Examples
You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
These provisions, although expressed at a level of great generality, have often been invoked by those who posit the existence of a broad international duty to cooperate or a right to solidarity.
The judge invoked an international law that protects refugees.
Definitions
verb
- evoke or provoke to appear or occur
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning)
- call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
- call to mind
- summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic
Examples
Now the word "prayer" to non-Muslim readers will evoke an image of people perhaps silently clasping their hands together, leaning forward in a pew, and either silently, to themselves, or in a quiet tone, speaking heartfeltly to God.
I think that while full-on female displays will evoke an easy and instinctual hormone rush -- which, as I said, might be a good complement to a melee brawl -- most intelligent people will agree that some sort of subtlety in sexuality is appealing on more levels simultaneously.
With names such as Codex Sinaiticus, the Macregol Gospels and the Valenciennes Apocalypse, they evoke lost empires and ancient monasteries as surely as archaeopteryx and ceratosaurus conjure up primeval swamps and forests.
