Avoke
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To call back again or revoke obsolete, transitive
"And after our long communication and reasoning in the King's Highness Cause, which, at length, we have written to your Grace in our common Letter, for a confirmation of many inconveniences and dangers which we perswaded to his Holiness, to follow both to himself and to the See Apostolick, in case his Holiness should avoke the cause; […]"
Example
More examples"And after our long communication and reasoning in the King's Highness Cause, which, at length, we have written to your Grace in our common Letter, for a confirmation of many inconveniences and dangers which we perswaded to his Holiness, to follow both to himself and to the See Apostolick, in case his Holiness should avoke the cause; […]"
Etymology
Compare avocate. Ultimately from Latin āvōcō, āvōcāre.
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