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Advocate

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

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Actor 76% connected

One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.

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Advise 76% connected

To give advice to; to offer an opinion, as worthy or expedient to be followed; to counsel; to warn.

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Attorney 76% connected

A substitute; a proxy; an agent.

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Doer 76% connected

One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent.

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Exhort 76% connected

To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments, as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; to urge strongly; he…

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Lawyer 76% connected

One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence…

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Propose 76% connected

To set forth.

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Suggest 76% connected

To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.

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Urge 76% connected

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

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Worker 76% connected

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass.

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Admirer 76% connected

One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

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Apologist 76% connected

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christ…

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Champion 76% connected

To furnish with a champion; to attend or defend as champion; to support or maintain; to protect.

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Communist 76% connected

An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

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Constitutionalist 76% connected

One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.

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Darwinian 76% connected

Pertaining to Darwin; as, the Darwinian theory, a theory of the manner and cause of the supposed development of living things from certain original f…

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Democrat 76% connected

One who is an adherent or advocate of democracy, or government by the people.

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Federalist 76% connected

An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member o…

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Friend 76% connected

One who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect, and affection that he seeks his society aud welfare; a wellwisher; an intimate ass…

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Gnostic 76% connected

Knowing; wise; shrewd.

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Humanist 76% connected

One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name…

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Humanitarian 76% connected

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

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Ideologist 76% connected

One who treats of ideas; one who theorizes or idealizes; one versed in the science of ideas, or who advocates the doctrines of ideology.

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Internationalist 76% connected

One who is versed in the principles of international law.

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Interpreter 76% connected

One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties.

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Jansenist 76% connected

A follower of Cornelius Jansen, a Roman Catholic bishop of Ypres, in Flanders, in the 17th century, who taught certain doctrines denying free will an…

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Justifier 76% connected

One who justifies; one who vindicates, supports, defends, or absolves.

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Libertarian 76% connected

Pertaining to liberty, or to the doctrine of free will, as opposed to the doctrine of necessity.

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Nationalist 76% connected

One who advocates national unity and independence; one of a party favoring Irish independence.

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Neutralist 76% connected

A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

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Nullifier 76% connected

One who nullifies or makes void; one who maintains the right to nullify a contract by one of the parties.

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Partisan 76% connected

An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.

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Platonist 76% connected

One who adheres to the philosophy of Plato; a follower of Plato.

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Presenter 76% connected

One who presents.

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Protagonist 76% connected

One who takes the leading part in a drama; hence, one who takes lead in some great scene, enterprise, conflict, or the like.

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Protectionist 76% connected

One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.

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Representative 76% connected

Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

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Republican 76% connected

Of or pertaining to a republic.

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Ritualist 76% connected

One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates or practices ritualism.

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Ruralist 76% connected

One who leads a rural life.

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Secessionist 76% connected

One who upholds secession.

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Secularist 76% connected

One who theoretically rejects every form of religious faith, and every kind of religious worship, and accepts only the facts and influences which are…

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Separatist 76% connected

One who withdraws or separates himself; especially, one who withdraws from a church to which he has belonged; a seceder from an established church; a…

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Sponsor 76% connected

One who binds himself to answer for another, and is responsible for his default; a surety.

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Suffragist 76% connected

One who possesses or exercises the political right of suffrage; a voter.

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Supporter 76% connected

One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life.

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Teleologist 76% connected

One versed in teleology.

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Vindicator 76% connected

One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

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Voice 76% connected

Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quali…

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Zealot 76% connected

One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or ca…

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Manner of action 4

Moralize 76% connected

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from.

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Preachify 76% connected

To discourse in the manner of a preacher.

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Prescribe 76% connected

To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.

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Sermonize 76% connected

To compose or write a sermon or sermons; to preach.

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Derivationally related 6

Preach 74% connected

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…

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Preach 74% connected

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…

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Sermon 74% connected

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

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Sermon 74% connected

A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.

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Urgency 74% connected

The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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Urgency 74% connected

The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.

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Synonym 9

Counsel 92% connected

Interchange of opinions; mutual advising; consultation.

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Counsellor 92% connected

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Counselor 92% connected

One who counsels; an adviser.

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Exponent 92% connected

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a fa…

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Pleader 92% connected

One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate.

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Preach 92% connected

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…

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Proponent 92% connected

Making proposals; proposing.

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Recommend 92% connected

To commend to the favorable notice of another; to commit to another's care, confidence, or acceptance, with favoring representations; to put in a fav…

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Urge 92% connected

To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward.

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