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

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

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

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One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly.

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

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An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

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

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

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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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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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Knowing; wise; shrewd.

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

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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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One who is versed in the principles of international law.

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

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

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

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

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A neutral; one who professes or practices neutrality.

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

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

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One who presents.

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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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One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.

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Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.

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Of or pertaining to a republic.

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

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One who leads a rural life.

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One who upholds secession.

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

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

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

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One versed in teleology.

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One who vindicates; one who justifies or maintains.

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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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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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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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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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