Advocated
[ædvəkeɪt;-ət]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Advocate
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Examples
- 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.
- Treason to the Government was openly advocated and was not rebuked. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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