misinvocation

plural misinvocations

1. countableuncountableAn invalid invocation.

   If the circumstances are not in order, the uttering of a performative is a “misinvocation" and the act is disallowed.

   1968, James H. Olthuis, Facts, Values and Ethics, page 146

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   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

   To use an example from Austin, when one promises a donkey to give it a carrot with no intention of doing so, two sorts of infelicities are in play: an insincerity and a misinvocation (23).

   2015, Randolph Clarke, Randolph K. Clarke, Michael McKenna, The Nature of Moral Responsibility: New Essays, page 231