Definition of advocate

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Advocate (n.) To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly..

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Solicitor :: Solicitor (n.) An attorney or advocate; one who represents another in court; -- formerly, in English practice, the professional designation of a person admitted to practice in a court of chancery or equity. See the Note under Attorney..
Paraclete :: Paraclete (n.) An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit..
Counsel :: Counsel (n.) One who gives advice, especially in legal matters; one professionally engaged in the trial or management of a cause in court; also, collectively, the legal advocates united in the management of a case; as, the defendant has able counsel..
Advocate :: Advocate (n.) One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Advocated :: Advocated (imp. & p. p.) of Advocat.
Appear :: Appear (v. i.) To stand in presence of some authority, tribunal, or superior person, to answer a charge, plead a cause, or the like; to present one's self as a party or advocate before a court, or as a person to be tried..
Voluntary :: Voluntary (n.) One who advocates voluntaryism.
Legalist :: Legalist (n.) One who practices or advocates strict conformity to law; in theology, one who holds to the law of works. See Legal, 2 (a)..
Romanticist :: Romanticist (n.) One who advocates romanticism in modern literature.
Panhellenist :: Panhellenist (n.) An advocate of Panhellenism.
Advocateship :: Advocateship (n.) Office or duty of an advocate.
Emigrationist :: Emigrationist (n.) An advocate or promoter of emigration.
Unionist :: Unionist (n.) One who advocates or promotes union; especially a loyal supporter of a federal union, as that of the United States..
Constitutionalist :: Constitutionalist (n.) One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
Libertine :: Libertine (n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women..
Communalism :: Communalism (n.) A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism..
Coalitionist :: Coalitionist (n.) One who joins or promotes a coalition; one who advocates coalition.
Pestalozzian :: Pestalozzian (a.) Belonging to, or characteristic of, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher..
Ritualist :: Ritualist (n.) One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism..
Emancipationist :: Emancipationist (n.) An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves..
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