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v. To speak, plead, or argue in favor of. See Synonyms at support.

n. One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender: an advocate of civil rights.

n. One that pleads in another's behalf; an intercessor: advocates for abused children and spouses.

n. A lawyer.

n. A person who supports others to make their voices heard, or ideally for them to speak up for themselves.

v. To argue for someone else.

v. To encourage support for something.

n. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

n. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses any cause by argument; a pleader.

n. Christ, considered as an intercessor.

v. To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunal or the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.

verb-intransitive. To act as advocate.

n. One who pleads the cause of another in a court of law; specifically, a lawyer of full rank in a country, or practising before a court, in which the civil or the canon law prevails, as France and Scotland, and the admiralty and ecclesiastical courts of England.

n. One who defends, vindicates, or espouses a cause by argument; a pleader in favor of any person or thing; an upholder; a defender: as, an advocate of peace or of the oppressed.

n. In the Roman Catholic Church, a name commonly applied to the promoter of the faith, one of the college of consistorial advocates in the papal court, from his office of urging the objections against the virtues, miracles, etc., of a person proposed for canonization.

n. One given to bringing forward accusations against personal character.

n. In England, formerly, an official who prosecuted in all criminal cases falling under military law which concerned the crown; now, a subordinate member of the government who acts as the legal adviser of the crown in all matters of military law.

To invoke.

To plead in favor of; defend by argument before a tribunal; support or vindicate.

In Scots law, formerly, to transfer from an inferior court to the Court of Session, as an action while still pending, or after judgment had been given, in order that the judgment might be reviewed. See advocation, 2.

To act as an advocate; plead.

v. push for something

v. speak, plead, or argue in favor of

n. a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

n. a lawyer who pleads cases in court

"The approach you seem to advocate is to simply bracket all questions about the referrents of mentalistic terms, and proceed according to intuitionism."

advocated    advocates    advocating   

propose    advise    suggest    attorney    lawyer   

lawyer    Christ    defend    lord advocate    judge-advocate general    god's advocate    devil's advocate    judge-advocate    faculty of advocates    advocate of the church   

advocated    advocating    devil's advocate   

counselor    pleader    support    favor    plead    advise   

supporter    champion    opponent    lawyer    defender    critic    politician    representative    leader    preacher