Advocate
['ædvəkeɪt] or ['ædvəket]
Definition
(noun.) a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
(noun.) a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
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Definition
(n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
(n.) One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
(n.) Christ, considered as an intercessor.
(n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
(v. i.) To act as advocate.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Defend, support, vindicate, justify, countenance, uphold, favor, plead in favor of, stand up for.
n. [1]. Counsellor, counsel, barrister, lawyer, attorney, solicitor, attorney-at-law, limb of the law.[2]. Defender, vindicator, supporter, favorer, apologist, friend, patron.[3]. Intercessor, comforter, paraclete, Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth.[4]. [With The prefixed.] Christ.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pleader, counsellor, upholder, propagator, promoter, supporter, countenancer,defender, maintainer
ANT:Opponent, adversary, discountenancer, accuser, impugner, gainsayer
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Definition
n. an intercessor or defender: one who pleads the cause of another esp. in a court of law in Scotland and France.—v.t. to plead in favour of: to recommend.—ns. Advocā′tion; Ad′vocator.—Lord Advocate the first law-officer of the crown and public prosecutor of crimes for Scotland.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you advocate any cause, denotes that you will be faithful to your interests, and endeavor to deal honestly with the public, as your interests affect it, and be loyal to your promises to friends.
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Examples
- I have not the inclination to parley,' said Mr. Brownlow, 'and, as I advocate the dearest interests of others, I have not the right. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Consistency, my dear Mr. Brocklehurst; I advocate consistency in all things. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You are becoming her advocate, said he. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here who may be more successful. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Adams is going to be called to the bar almost directly, and is to be an advocate, and to wear a wig. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- He was wet through with sweat and he knew the bomb advocate was perfectly capable of tossing a grenade at any moment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She will but the more zealously advocate my cause because she has left me in anger. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It is no part of my purpose to make any judgment as to the value of particular policies they have advocated. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Bacon believed in honoring the great discoverers and inventors, and advocated maintaining a calendar of inventions. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- I remember the time, Countess, when you advocated the Rights of Women, and freedom of female opinion was one of them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And he advocated a national army only because he saw the Italian method of carrying on war by hiring bands of foreign mercenaries was a hopeless one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Both of these philosophers illustrated by their own investigations the efficiency of the methods which they advocated. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Beyond any whose cause you have advocated. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The Penns found here some strenuous advocates; nor were there wanting some who warmly espoused the side of the people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Preece, who, having been seriously sceptical as to Mr. Edison's results, became one of his most ardent advocates, and did much to facilitate the introduction of the light. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The proctors employ the advocates. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- What the Commission advocates is the constant repression and the ultimate annihilation of a mode of life which refuses discovery and measurement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But for the affairs of statecraft, for the very policies that a Roosevelt advocates, the interest is largely perfunctory, maintained out of a sense of duty and dropped with a sigh of relief. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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