"misinvoke" meaning in English

See misinvoke in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: misinvokes [present, singular, third-person], misinvoking [participle, present], misinvoked [participle, past], misinvoked [past]
Etymology: mis- + invoke Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mis|invoke}} mis- + invoke Head templates: {{en-verb}} misinvoke (third-person singular simple present misinvokes, present participle misinvoking, simple past and past participle misinvoked)
  1. To invoke (any sense) in error.
    Sense id: en-misinvoke-en-verb-6FJL0dyr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mis-

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2008, John Ravenhill, Global Political Economy, page 41",
          "text": "However, to reduce the work of Smith and Ricardo to one argument each is to overlook the nuances in their arguments and to misinvoke them as the forefathers of a purely economic liberalism.",
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          "ref": "2013, John Leslie, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, The Mystery of Existence: Why Is There Anything At All?, page 68",
          "text": "And if the very notion of physical time becomes problematic in fundamental physics, as urged by John Wheeler, even the temptation to misinvoke divine creation ex nihilo is altogether undercut.",
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          "ref": "2016, California. Court of Appeal (4th Appellate District)., page 22",
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