Meanings
present singular third person reinvokes · participle present reinvoking · participle past reinvoked · past reinvoked
- transitiveTo invoke again.
He reinvokes the value of experientially acquired wisdom (paideia).
2006, Nicholas Davey, Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics, →ISBN2 more examples
Reinvokes the function in the current frame (restart its execution at the beginning), optionally changing the arguments.
1984, Richard Stallman, Lisp machine manual, page 735Such perceived helplessness on the part of the therapist reinvokes the image of the ineffectual parent who could do nothing to protect her child from extreme forms of abuse.
1994, Jody Messler Davies, Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse, →ISBN
Origin
Translations
French réinvoquer
- réinvoquerTranslations
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