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advocation
ad·vo·cate A0107000 (ăd′və-kāt′)v. ad·vo·cat·ed, ad·vo·cat·ing, ad·vo·cates v.tr. To speak, plead, or argue in favor of: advocate a vegan diet. See Synonyms at support.v.intr. Usage Problem To act as an advocate: advocated for her patients; advocated for more stringent crime laws.n. (-kĭt)1. One that argues for a cause; a supporter or defender: an advocate of civil rights.2. One that pleads in another's behalf; an intercessor: advocates for abused children and spouses.3. A lawyer.
[From Middle English advocat, lawyer, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus, past participle of advocāre, to summon for counsel : ad-, ad- + vocāre, to call; see wekw- in Indo-European roots.]
ad′vo·ca′tion n.ad′vo·ca′tive, ad·voc′a·to′ry (ăd-vŏk′ə-tôr′ē, ăd′və-kə-) adj.ad′vo·ca′tor n.Usage Note: The standard form of the verb advocate is transitive, meaning "endorse" or "argue for," as in The teacher advocated a new educational technique, which was accepted by 85 percent of the Usage Panel in our 2014 survey. Many readers balk when the verb is used to express the same meaning in an intransitive form with the preposition for: less than half (45 percent) of the Panel approved of The teacher advocated for a new educational technique. The intransitive is more acceptable, however, when the object of for is the beneficiary of the advocacy rather than the idea or action being advocated: two-thirds of the Panel approved The teacher advocated for her at-risk students. A careful writer will use transitive advocate in sentences indicating the idea or action, restricting the intransitive to sentences indicating the beneficiaries.advocation (ˌædvəˈkeɪʃən) n (Law) Scots law papal law the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower courtEncyclopediaSeeadvocateadvocation
advocation in canon law and Scots law, the transfer to itself by a superior court of an action pending in a lower court; in modern Scots law an appeal in respect of procedural matters or where the matter has not been determined by trial.ADVOCATION, Scotch law. A writing drawn up in the form of a petition, calleda bill of advocation, by which a party in an action applies to the supremecourt to advocate its cause, and to call the action out of an inferior courtto itself. Letters of advocation, are the decree or warrant of the supremecourt or court of sessions, discharging the inferior tribunal from allfurther proceedings in the matter, and advocating the action to itself.This proceeding is similar to a certiorari (q.v.) issuing out of a superiorcourt for the removal of a cause from an inferior. |