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Another word for advocate

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Verb

  1. To aid the cause of by approving or favoring

    Idioms:
    See also:

    support

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Another word for advocate

Verb

  1. To defend

    See also:

    defend

  2. To promote

    See also:

    support

    See syn. study at

    support

    promote

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Sentence Examples

  • Be an advocate of her privacy, not her identification.

  • When you have visited a place, you will find it harder to advocate its destruction.

  • In 1789 he was an advocate at the parlement of Normandy.

  • Abraham Lincoln hated slavery and became an advocate of abolitionism.

  • Dissatisfied with ecclesiastical life, Genovesi resigned his post, and qualified as an advocate at Rome.

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