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137 words match “ADVOCATE”

OPPORTUNIST n.
One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]
PANHELLENIST n.
An advocate of Panhellenism.
PARACLETE n.
An advocate; one called to aid or support; hence, the Consoler, Comforter, or Intercessor; -- a term applied to the Holy Spirit. From which intercession especially I conceive he hath the name of the Paraclete given him by Christ. Bp. Pearson.
PATRON n.
An advocate or pleader. Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire. Macaulay.
PEDOBAPTIST n.
One who advocates or practices infant baptism. [Written also pædobaptist.]
PESSIMIST n.
One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to Ant: optimist.
PESSIMIZE v.
To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.
PESTALOZZIAN a. 2 definitions
, a system of elementary education which combined manual training with other instruction, advocated and practiced by Jean Henri Pestalozzi (1746-1827), a Swiss teacher. -- n.
PETTIFOG v.
To advocate like a pettifogger; to argue trickily; as, to pettifog a claim. [Colloq.]
PHILANTHROPINIST n.
An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism.
PHILIPPIZE v.
To support or advocate the cause of Philip of Macedon.
PHONETIST n.
One who advocates a phonetic spelling.
PLATONIC; PLATONICAL a.
arding the mind only and its excellences; -- a species of love for which Plato was a warm advocate. -- Platonic year (Astron.), a period of time determined by the revolution of the equinoxes, or the space of time in which the stars and constellations return to their former places in respect to the equinoxes; -- called…
POLYARCHIST n.
One who advocates polyarchy; -- opposed to monarchist. Cudworth.
POLYGYNIST n.
One who practices or advocates polygyny. H. Spenser.
POLYTHEIZE v.
To adhere to, advocate, or inculcate, the doctrine of polytheism. Milman.
POPULISM n.
The political doctrines advocated by the People's party.
PRELATIST n.
One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
PREMEDIATE v.
To advocate. [R.]
PRERAPHAELISM; PRERAPHAELITISM n.
modern painters who profess to be followers of the painters before Raphael. Its adherents advocate careful study from nature, delicacy and minuteness of workmanship, and an exalted and delicate conception of the subject.
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