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Leader in a cause
Answer for the clue "Leader in a cause ", 11 letters:
torchbearer
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Word definitions for torchbearer in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Torchbearer \Torch"bear`er\, n. One whose office it is to carry a torch.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A person who carries a torch (flaming brand) 2 (context by extension English) The leader of a campaign, or one who gives inspiration to others
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a leader in a campaign or movement
Usage examples of torchbearer.
It was a bronze statue, Greek or Roman, of a torchbearer whose branch flared with sudden cold corposant fire.
Paks blinked against it, as the torchbearer set his light in a holder just inside the cell door.
But she was already walking down a stone passage as she thought this, between the first iynisi and a torchbearer in front, and the other torchbearer and attendant behind.
Three of the torchbearers flung down their brands and leapt for the door, wrenching it open and disappearing down the stairs.
Kidruhil, positioned themselves before and after the Imperial Chariot, and flanked by running torchbearers, the shining procession wound down the Andiamine Heights toward the dark and smoky troughs of Momemn.
Moving slowly so the torchbearers could keep pace, it clattered through the Imperial Precincts and onto the long, monumental avenue that joined the palace compounds to the temple-complex of Cmiral.
Soon slaves and caste-menials jostled within spitting distance of the torchbearers, their faces clearly illuminated, and Xerius realized that they actually jeered and laughed each time he saluted them.
The vanguard of the torchbearers of a world-redeeming civilization are landing on its shores and are settling in its capitals.
The rise of the World Administrative Center of their Faith, within the precincts and under the shadow of its World Spiritual Center, a process that has been kept in abeyance for well nigh thirty years, whilst the machinery of the national and local institutions of a nascent Order was being erected and perfected, presents them with an opportunity which, as the champion-builders of that Order and the torchbearers of an as yet unborn civilization, they must seize with alacrity, resolution and utter consecration.
In addition to two torchbearers and two attendants, there were four liveried soldiers following him and the cheerfully chattering Prince.
Young men, torchbearers, were racing along the wallwalk, bringing light to anyone who wanted it.
Two or three of them were carrying blazing torches, and more torchbearers were coming down the steps behind them.
By now it was dark and a band of veteran comrades, serving as torchbearers, lit firebrands until the vestibule was flaming with a ruddy glow.
As the torchbearers of her escort moved around the oval lighting torches set on brackets, she realized that the dark space was not empty.
The Carver, a comely man with his knives in hand, walked into the Hall followed by the Taster, the Assayers, the Cup-Bearer, the Head Butler, and the Head Panter, all flanked by torchbearers.