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/rɪvˈoʊk/ /rivˈoʊk/ Listen

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Revoke v. t. (past & past part. revoked;pres. part. revoking)

To call or bring back; to recall. (Obs.) "The faint sprite he did revoke again, To her frail mansion of morality."

Hence, to annul, by recalling or taking back; to repeal; to rescind; to cancel; to reverse, as anything granted by a special act; as, , to revoke a will, a license, a grant, a permission, a law, or the like.

To hold back; to repress; to restrain. (Obs.) "(She) still strove their sudden rages to revoke."

To draw back; to withdraw. (Obs.)

To call back to mind; to recollect. (Obs.) "A man, by revoking and recollecting within himself former passages, will be still apt to inculcate these sad memoris to his conscience."

Synonyms: To abolish; recall; repeal; rescind; countermand; annul; abrogate; cancel; reverse. See Abolish.

Revoke v. i. (Card Playing) To fail to follow suit when holding a card of the suit led, in violation of the rule of the game; to renege.

noun

Revoke n. (Card Playing) The act of revoking. "She (Sarah Battle) never made a revoke."

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"Revoke" Quotes from Famous Books

... practically equal. Therefore the Polite World, gravely busied with its cards or embroidery, and at the same time striving mentally to compute the exact percentage of these chances, was occasionally known to revoke, or prick ...

— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al

... 5): "To live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery." In a monarchy untrammelled by senate or popular assembly, it were well that some of the sovereign power should remain latent, and that His Majesty should rule in accordance with certain laws, not within his royal pleasure to revoke. ...

— Moral Philosophy • Joseph Rickaby, S. J.

... measures of that officer had produced great discontent, alarm, and agitation, in the public mind; and, unless such proceeding were effectually opposed, all confidence in government would be at an end. He urged Claiborne to revoke the order, by which he had placed the Orleans volunteers under Wilkinson's command, and to call out and arm the rest of the militia force, as soon as possible. He stated it as his opinion, that the army would not oppose the civil power, when constitutionally ...

— The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 • Various

... only. He had been taken to the inn, as I had, but he had never escaped from there, and had been turned adrift the morning after his arrival. I took more interest in Stefan, and followed eagerly the story of how the islanders had come to his house, and demanded that he should revoke the sale. Stefan, however, was obstinate; it lost the lives of four of his assailants before his house was forced. Thus far I read, and expected to find next an account of a melee in the hall. But here the story took a turn unexpected by me, one that might make the ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. VI., No. 6, May, 1896 • Various

... her mate—it shan't be so— I'd sooner our last hope forego. Our third wish will your peace restore, We are but where we were before. I will my luckless wish revoke, Recall the words I rashly spoke, And to relieve you from this evil, I WISH THE PUDDING ...

— Think Before You Speak - The Three Wishes • Catherine Dorset

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