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misinvocation (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 misinvocations)

1. An invalid invocation.
   • 1968, James H. Olthuis, Facts, Values and Ethics, page 146:

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

   • 1993, Adolf Grünbaum, Validation in the Clinical Theory of Psychoanalysis, page 222:

     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.

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

     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).