To evoke, produce, or summon a quality, emotion, or response.
Make something (like a feeling or a quality) come out or appear.
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To evoke or produce a particular quality, feeling, or response in someone or something.
"The general's speech called forth a surge of patriotic pride from the troops."
"It called forth all the powers of the human mind."
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790
To call something forward — making it come out from within.
Make something (like a feeling or a quality) come out or appear.
Literary and formal register. Rarely used in casual conversation. Found in speeches, literature, and formal writing. Often used with abstract nouns such as 'courage', 'admiration', or 'emotion'.
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