Incantation is an English word with synonyms like conjuration or spell. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Incantation meaning
- The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results.
- A formula of words used as above.
- Any esoteric command or procedure.
Synonyms of Incantation
Using Incantation
- The main meaning on this page is: The act or process of using formulas and/or usually rhyming words, sung or spoken, with occult ceremonies, for the purpose of raising spirits, producing enchantment, or creating other magical results. | A formula of words used as above. | Any esoteric command or procedure.
- Useful related words include: conjuration, spell, magic spell, magical spell.
- In the example corpus, incantation often appears in combinations such as: an incantation, the incantation, this incantation.
Context around Incantation
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incantation
- In this selection, "incantation" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, legendary, evil, proper, places, itself and cheeseburger stand out and add context to how "incantation" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a proper incantation to create and beautiful an incantation rather than. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incantation" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incantation
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Should it fall the incantation was successful. (7 words)
While mentioned in the books, the incantation itself is not given. (11 words)
Additionally, there’s a proper incantation to create them yourself – nice! (11 words)
Eric is so curious to read the book that he cuts the barbed wire encasing it, ignores the all-caps writing on multiple pages that warn to leave the book alone, and proceeds to read aloud the evil incantation. (39 words)
Kind of wish you hadn’t said the magic incantation “cheeseburger from the place with the good onion rings,” because there is such a place only a few minutes’ walk from where I sit this very moment. (37 words)
Discovered in August 2017 within a small building, possibly a shrine, at the site of Zincirli (called “Sam’al” in ancient times), in Turkey, the incantation is inscribed on a stone cosmetic container. (33 words)
Additionally, there’s a proper incantation to create them yourself – nice! (11 words)
Example sentences (20)
Doing so unlocks its legendary incantation at the Cathedral of Dragon Communion, which in turn unlocks the secret of its identity.
Eric is so curious to read the book that he cuts the barbed wire encasing it, ignores the all-caps writing on multiple pages that warn to leave the book alone, and proceeds to read aloud the evil incantation.
To do so, he recited an incantation, which came into effect by altering his own shadow into that of Mimihagi itself, after which the shadow spread out across his body.
This Incantation places a tiny Erdtree on the ground that will heal allies who stand in its vicinity.
This thief holds the legendary incantation called the Flame of the Fell God, a spell holding the power of the said to be residing inside every Fire Giant.
You don't need to kill any of the enemies here to get this Incantation, you just have to walk up and grab it.
While mentioned in the books, the incantation itself is not given.
Additionally, there’s a proper incantation to create them yourself – nice!
At nearly three hours long, A Hidden Life moves slowly but it is rhapsodically beautiful, an incantation rather than a drama, in its own way nothing less than an act of prayer.
Blackened eyes and vomited goop provide the only other accents to an otherwise sleepy campfire incantation, even then lacking any impact besides a thrown in digital/liquid effect.
He said it’s “very fun and juicy” to play the fiddle, torment people and recite an incantation on-stage.
A work of protest and incantation, it mixes stout horn arrangements with fierce improvisations and radical poetry confronting the scourge of racial violence — physical and political — in the United States.
Discovered in August 2017 within a small building, possibly a shrine, at the site of Zincirli (called “Sam’al” in ancient times), in Turkey, the incantation is inscribed on a stone cosmetic container.
Kind of wish you hadn’t said the magic incantation “cheeseburger from the place with the good onion rings,” because there is such a place only a few minutes’ walk from where I sit this very moment.
The novelty of coming back has worn off, nostalgia for a bygone winter break sets in, and the melodic incantation of “If I can just make it through this week,” increases in familiarity.
After Ash kills Henrietta, Annie chants an incantation that sends the evil force back to its origin.
Allegedly, Parker continued this incantation for several minutes after Powell's departure, to his own amusement and Mingus's exasperation.
Ralston in his Songs of the Russian People gives the form of incantation still familiar in Russia.
Should it fall the incantation was successful.
The incantation opens up a whirling temporal portal which not only draws in the evil force, but nearby trees, the Oldsmobile, and Ash himself.
Common combinations with incantation
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an incantation 5×
- the incantation 4×
- this incantation 3×
- legendary incantation 2×
- incantation for 2×
- of incantation 2×