CALL FORTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does call forth mean? 

• CALL FORTH (verb)
  The verb CALL FORTH has 2 senses:

1. evoke or provoke to appear or occur

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

  Familiarity information: CALL FORTH used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALL FORTH (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Evoke or provoke to appear or occur

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke

Context example:

Her behavior provoked a quarrel between the couple

Hypernyms (to "call forth" is one way to...):

cause; do; make (give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally)

Verb group:

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir (summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call forth"):

pick (provoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

arouse; bring up; call down; call forth; conjure; conjure up; evoke; invoke; put forward; raise; stir

Context example:

call down the spirits from the mountain

Hypernyms (to "call forth" is one way to...):

call up; summon (cause to become available for use, either literally or figuratively)

Verb group:

call forth; evoke; kick up; provoke (evoke or provoke to appear or occur)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "call forth"):

anathemise; anathemize; bedamn; beshrew; curse; damn; imprecate; maledict (wish harm upon; invoke evil upon)

bless (give a benediction to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She was received by the Allens with all the kindness which her unlooked-for appearance, acting on a steady affection, would naturally call forth; and great was their surprise, and warm their displeasure, on hearing how she had been treated—though Mrs. Morland's account of it was no inflated representation, no studied appeal to their passions.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real passion, and without having excited even any admiration but what was very moderate and very transient.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)