Crossword clues for advocate
advocate
- 14-Across's role, often
- A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
- A lawyer who pleads cases in court
- Supporter
- Support briefs with the rear end cut out
- Recommend against commander breaking an engagement
- Recommend a solicitor?
- Recommend a romantic partner to entertain very old Conservative
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Advocate \Ad"vo*cate\, n. [OE. avocat, avocet, OF. avocat, fr. L. advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See Advowee, Avowee, Vocal.]
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One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.
Note: In the English and American Law, advocate is the same as ``counsel,'' ``counselor,'' or ``barrister.'' In the civil and ecclesiastical courts, the term signifies the same as ``counsel'' at the common law.
One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader; as, an advocate of free trade, an advocate of truth.
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Christ, considered as an intercessor.
We have an Advocate with the Father.
--1 John ii. 1.Faculty of advocates (Scot.), the Scottish bar in Edinburgh.
Lord advocate (Scot.), the public prosecutor of crimes, and principal crown lawyer.
Judge advocate. See under Judge.
Advocate \Ad"vo*cate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Advocated; p. pr. & vb. n. Advocating.] [See Advocate, n., Advoke, Avow.] To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.
To advocate the cause of thy client.
--Bp.
Sanderson
(1624).
This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has
been advocated.
--Burke.
Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause.
--Mitford.
Advocate \Ad"vo*cate\, v. i.
To act as advocate. [Obs.]
--Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "one whose profession is to plead cases in a court of justice," a technical term from Roman law, from Old French avocat "barrister, advocate, spokesman," from Latin advocatus "one called to aid; a pleader, advocate," noun use of past participle of advocare "to call" (as witness or advisor) from ad- "to" (see ad-) + vocare "to call," related to vocem (see voice (n.)). Also in Middle English as "one who intercedes for another," and "protector, champion, patron." Feminine forms advocatess, advocatrice were in use in 15c.
1640s, from advocate (n.). Related: Advocated; advocating; advocation.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case in a court of law; a counsel. (from 14th c.) 2 Anyone who argues the case of another; an intercessor. (from 14th c.) 3 A person who speaks in support of something. (from 18th c.) 4 A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves. vb. 1 (label en transitive) To plead in favour of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly. 2 (label en transitive) To encourage support for something. 3 (label en intransitive with ''for'') To engage in advocacy.
WordNet
n. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocator, proponent, exponent]
a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader]
v. push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge]
speak, plead, or argue in favour of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach]
Wikipedia
An advocate is a type of professional person in several different legal systems and it is also a commonly used honorific for remarkable lawyers, such as in " Adv. Sir Alberico Gentili". The broad equivalent in many English law-based jurisdictions can be a barrister. However, in Scottish, South African, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Scandinavian, South Asian and South American jurisdictions, advocate is also a word to indicate lawyers of superior classification.
The Advocate is a student newspaper for Kansas City Kansas Community College. The newspaper also maintains an online presence.
The Advocate was a newspaper in Pittsburgh, published under several title variants from 1832 to 1844. It was the second daily newspaper issued in the city, the first being its eventual purchaser, the Gazette. Politically, the paper supported the principles of the Whig Party.
Usage examples of "advocate".
The Swamp Folk and the other aborigines will no longer revere you and follow you and call you their Great Advocate if you are without it, will they, Lady of the Eyes?
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers except the legislative boldly advocated, with labored arguments to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
In those documents we find the abridgment of the existing right of suffrage, and the denial to the people of all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large control of the people in government is the source of all political evil.
The advocate of equal rights is preoccupied by these opportunities for the abusive exercise of power, because from his point of view rights exercised in the interest of inequality have ceased to be righteous.
But it seems likely that such a plan of private ownership would not be tolerated under a Socialist government, for, first of all, a very large number of Socialists are opposed to such a plan, and, secondly, the political actionists who have favored it either have sacrificed thereby the principles of their party, or else by advocating the private ownership of small farms, have done so with the intention of deceiving farmers and small land owners in order to win their votes.
I soaked it up like a sponge, listening eagerly to the advice of adoptive parents, their grown children, clinical psychologists, advocates, social workers, and adoption resource professionals.
City advocates could cry bloody murder if you took one position, while the agribusiness lobby would come after you if you took the other.
This concession to the agriculturists gave great offence to those who advocated free trade.
Indeed, since Ancel Keys started advocating low-fat diets almost 50 years ago, the science of fat and cholesterol has evolved from a simple story into a very complicated one.
Rather anomalous evidence was quite often the center of serious, longstanding controversy within the very heart of elite scientific circles, with advocates holding scientific credentials and positions just as prestigious as those of the opponents.
Even the most prejudiced advocates of the Arkite theory 42 Procopius, in his History of the Gothic War, mentions a curious popular British superstition concerning the ferriage of souls among the neighboring islands at midnight.
The gross contradiction of the common doctrine of hell to the spirit of love is so obvious that its advocates, unable to deny or conceal it, have often positively proclaimed it, avowing that, in respect to the wicked, God is changed into a consuming fire full of hatred and vengeance.
Ignorant advocates and babblers have asked, in the Club of Clichy, why we occupy the territory of Venice.
When I reached my room I began to write, and spent the night in composing an ode which I sent the next day to the advocate.
After a visit of four hours I bowed myself out, and the advocate, following me, told me that his mother-in-law begged me to consider myself as a friend of the family, and to be certain of a welcome at any hour I liked to call.