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call forth

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. provoke, evoke, call forth, kick upverb

    evoke or provoke to appear or occur

    "Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple"

  2. raise, conjure, conjure up, invoke, evoke, stir, call down, arouse, bring up, put forward, call forthverb

    summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

    "raise the specter of unemployment"; "he conjured wild birds in the air"; "call down the spirits from the mountain"

Wiktionary

  1. call forthverb

    To induce, inspire.

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  1. call forth

    To call forth means to evoke, summon, or bring into existence. It usually refers to eliciting a reaction, emotion, or response, or prompting something to happen or be experienced.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of call forth in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of call forth in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of call forth in a Sentence

  1. Abigail Adams:

    Great necessities call forth great leaders.

  2. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

  3. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

  4. Edmund Burke:

    In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

  5. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.


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