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Definition of Advocator
1. Noun. A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Apologist, Justifier, Vindicator, Constitutionalist, Darwinian, Democrat, Populist, Federalist, Gnostic, Humanist, Humanitarian, Ideologist, Ideologue, Internationalist, Irredentist, Irridentist, Isolationist, Jansenist, Libertarian, Maoist, Marxist, Nationalist, Neoclassicist, Neutralist, Nullifier, Drumbeater, Partisan, Zealot, Partitionist, Platonist, Pro-lifer, Presenter, Sponsor, Protectionist, Republican, Ritualist, Ruralist, Secessionist, Secularist, Separationist, Separatist, Interpreter, Representative, Spokesperson, Voice, Suffragist, Admirer, Booster, Champion, Friend, Protagonist, Supporter, Supremacist, Teleologist, Thatcherite, Unilateralist
Derivative terms: Advocate, Advocate, Propound
Definition of Advocator
1. Noun. One who advocates. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Advocator
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Advocator
Literary usage of Advocator
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Decided in the House of Lords, on Appeal from the Courts of Scotland by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, William Reginald Courtenay Devon, Charles Hope Maclean, Patrick Shaw, James Wilson (1830)
"by the advocator, that he applied the manure made in his farm June 10. ...
To say, • then, that the advocator, if it was his practice to bestow his dung on ..."
2. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"According to the plain meaning and design of the advocator's letter of guarantee,
he became bound to pay the acceptance of Wiseman, if it should not be paid ..."
3. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1837)
"The oil purchased for the advocator by the respondents, who acted throughout the
transaction as agents and not as principals, having been purchased out of ..."
4. The Scots Revised Reports: Court of Session, Second Series by Scotland Court of Session (1905)
"There is no ground for a charge of reset of theft, and no reason to believe that
in making the purchase, the advocator or his servants actually knew the ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1867)
"appeal, reversed by the Sheriff-Principal, who held that the advocator must tail
in hia application, as no right of property in the tup had passed to the ..."
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