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misinvokes

misinvokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misinvoke.

Meaning of misinvoke

Verb

misinvoke (third-person singular simple present misinvokes, present participle misinvoking, simple past and past participle misinvoked)

  1. To invoke (any sense) in error.
    • 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.1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222

Questions about misinvokes

What is misinvokes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Misinvokes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of misinvoke.

Words near misinvokes in the dictionary

  1. misinvoiced
  2. misinvoices
  3. misinvoicing
  4. misinvoke
  5. misinvoked
  6. misinvokes
  7. misinvoking
  8. Misiones
  9. misissuance
  10. misissue
  11. misissued

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Adapted from Wiktionary: misinvokes (page history and authors); misinvoke (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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