Word Finder - invitation

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The act of inviting; solicitation; the requesting of a person's company.

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an invitation to a party, to a dinner, or to visit a friend

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A document or verbal message conveying an invitation.

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We need to print off fifty invitations for the party.

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Allurement; enticement.

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A line that is intentionally left open to encourage the opponent to attack.

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The brief exhortation introducing the confession in the Anglican communion-office.

They accepted the invitation and were drowned.

My party invitation must have been lost in the mail.

I got an invitation to the wedding too, you know.

It was all the invitation she needed.

She shrugged and accepted his invitation with some reservation.

He gave her a hug back and then, at Martha's enthusiastic invitation was off to see her new room.

It looks like I'll have to accept your invitation to spend the night, but I'll pay you as soon as I get my things.

She snuggled next to him, usually an invitation for love, but tonight he sensed she just wanted to be held.

An invitation had been sent Garibaldi to put Fraiwis II.

The same year Charles, on the invitation of the barons, took possession of the kingdom of Lotharingia.

The invitation was addressed to all three of them.

She tilted her head to the side, exposing the delicate skin on her neck in an unmistakable invitation to the demon side of her mate.

Under the circumstances, Carmen didn't want to drive Alex's truck, so she accepted Josh and Lori's invitation to ride with them.

At Franeker his house was a small château, " separated by a moat from the rest of the town, where the mass could be said in safety."' And one motive in favour of accepting an invitation to England lay in the alleged leanings of Charles I.

The service ended in 40 minutes with the priest extending an invitation for friends to return to Mrs. Byrne's home.

I was a little surprised at the invitation.

At length the turning point in his career came in the shape of an invitation for him and his father to accompany Captain Cook in his third voyage round the world.

We were rolling in euphoria when an old friend from my Amherst, Massachusetts childhood telephoned with an invitation to visit her family cabin in New Hampshire.

A last minute invitation was given to Howie.

It gurgled an invitation as it raced by on its way from the old swimming hole.

In the spring of 1848 he was in Germany, and on the outbreak of the revolutionary troubles he accepted the invitation of the government of Baden to take the command against the insurgent "free companies" (Freischaaren).

In that year William Longsword, eldest of the five sons of Count William III., came to the kingdom of Jerusalem, on the invitation of Baldwin IV.

In fact, things were going so well that she actually accepted an invitation to a valentine's party at Roxanne's house.

There was a note on the hall table from Cynthia that she and Martha had accepted Brandon Westlake's invitation to catch the late afternoon sun and photograph wildflowers, and Pumpkin Green has stopped by, looking for Dean.

Considerable numbers of Germans, tradesmen and artisans, settled at the invitation of the Russian government in many of the larger towns as early as the 16th century, and to a much greater extent in the 18th century.

Three brothers, princes of Ras, called respectively Rurik, Sineus and Truvor, accepted the invitation and founded a dynasty, from which many of the Russian princes of the present day claim descent.

He gladly accepted the invitation.

Once Jim extends the invitation, he memorizes all the individuals' names, where they are from, what they do for a living, information about their families, and so forth.

The visitor is giving you an open invitation to his soul.

He well remembered the last interview he had had with the old prince at the time of the enrollment, when in reply to an invitation to dinner he had had to listen to an angry reprimand for not having provided his full quota of men.

The cart in which the officer lay was turned into the Rostovs' yard, and dozens of carts with wounded men began at the invitation of the townsfolk to turn into the yards and to draw up at the entrances of the houses in Povarskaya Street.

Was he tossing out an invitation?

It wasn't an invitation but I figured I owed my presence for what I'd learned so far and I couldn't wait to renew our conversation.

You don't need an invitation to drink, love.

He reached into his jacket and produced an embossed invitation in peach and brown.

Though he harbored no regrets in declining her invitation to sex, he knew he could and should have handled so obviously unstable a person in such a mental state far better than he did.

In 1633, although still below the canonical age, he took holy orders, and, accepting the invitation of Thomas Risden, a former fellow-student, to supply his place for a short time as lecturer in St Paul's, he at once attracted attention by his eloquence and by his handsome face.

Besides, there was a still more terrible standing invitation to call at every one of these houses, and company expected about these times.

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The statement was an open invitation but she was several conversations wiser now, and waited for him to volunteer the rest of the story.

This was supposed to be a good-bye kiss, not an invitation.

On the 30th of June 1688 he was one of the seven leaders of the Revolution who signed the invitation to William.

In 1521, on the invitation of Bishop Briconnet, he repaired to Meaux, and took part in efforts of reform within the Roman communion.

He refused calls to churches in Dublin and Rotterdam, and in 1766 declined an invitation brought him by Richard Stockton to go to America as president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University); but he accepted a second invitation and left Paisley in May 1768.

In August he occupied Toulon on the invitation of the French royalists, and in co-operation with the Spaniards.

By royal invitation he went in 1218 to Norway, where he remained a long time with the young king Haakon and his tutor Earl Skuli.

After a few words about Princess Mary and her late father, whom Malvintseva had evidently not liked, and having asked what Nicholas knew of Prince Andrew, who also was evidently no favorite of hers, the important old lady dismissed Nicholas after repeating her invitation to come to see her.

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According to the invitation, the party will be held in the main entrance near the Christmas tree.