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Definition of Proponents
1. proponent [n] - See also: proponent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proponents
Literary usage of Proponents
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... The proponents of the newest theory offered to explain evolution, the mutations
theory, have no more satisfactory explanation of the results of disuse, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1899)
"Will Contests — Bights of proponents. — In cases where the validity of a will is
contested for any reason, as on an issue of ..."
3. Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1911 by Franklin Hichborn (1911)
"proponents AND OPPONENTS OF LOCAL OPTION. Growing Opposition to the Saloon Comes
From Conditions Due to Its Exploitation by Interests Which ..."
4. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"During the trial, proponents offered a letter book of the deceased, containing
what were claimed to be copies of letters written by the deceased to various ..."
5. The New York Times Current History (1915)
"Desired Peace Terms for Europe Outlined by proponents for the Allies and for
Germany The following forecast of the terms of peace which the Allie» could ..."
6. A Digest of the International Law of the United States: Taken from Documents by Francis Wharton (1887)
"... which should secure such previous scrutiny and examination of the law and
facts upon which such claims are based by their proponents as shall prima ..."
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