Definition of Advocates

1. Verb. (third-person singular of advocate) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of advocate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Advocates

1. advocate [v] - See also: advocate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Advocates

advisor
advisories
advisors
advisory
advisory board
advisory opinion
advisory opinions
advisory service
advisos
advocaat
advocaats
advocacies
advocacy
advocate
advocated
advocates (current term)
advocateship
advocateships
advocateth
advocating
advocation
advocations
advocative
advocator
advocators
advocatory
advoke
advoked
advokes
advoking

Literary usage of Advocates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"... in 1792, seventy-two advocates, besides 34 in the other cities and villages, making 106 advocates, to a population of 254821 souls; and the territorial ..."

2. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"Activity seems to be the only principle which Goethe advocates, activity and earnestness—especially in self- culture,—and in this last quality, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"advocates minians who had been most affected of These by the Socinian reasoning; and in the Theories, next age became the especial property of the better ..."

4. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... BC 427. to be their advocates. They came forward and spoke III. as follows : — ' Men of Lacedaemon, we surrendered our city be- 53- cause we had ..."

5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"I am weary of protesting against the imputation which Dr. Carpenter conveys in the words "scientific advocates of the system." I emphatically deny that I ..."

6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"... Thorns from the original manuscript in the library of the Faculty of advocates of Edinburgh, and printed in vol. ii. of the ' Camden Miscellany,' 1853. ..."

7. Publications by Scotland Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Bannatyne Club (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1854)
"Have you chosen a librarian for the advocates' Library ? I feel an hereditary interest in that collection, and hope to see it in much better train. ..."

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