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Definition of Advocating
1. advocate [v] - See also: advocate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advocating
Literary usage of Advocating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1851)
"PEEL'S MOTIVES FOR advocating FREE TRADE. The Dean of York, « personal friend of
the late Sir Robert Peel, has written a тегу brief but comprehensive memoir ..."
2. History of the Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770: Consisting of the Narrative by Frederic Kidder, John Adams (1870)
"Josiah Quincy had closed a life devoted to liberty and the rights of the colonies,
and John Adams was in congress advocating the adoption of the declaration ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... the most essential characteristic of life, different schools advocating
different material elements as the ultimate principle of life. ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1861)
"... advocating aud justifying and threatening the robbery of forts and the stealing
of the military ..."