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Definition
a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
- CHAPTER 24 — The Advocate.Chapters 22-24 -- Merry Christmas; The Lee Shore; The Advocate (54% in)
advocate = lawyer in colonial America
- But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (1% in)
- But after embattling his facts, an advocate who should wholly suppress a not unreasonable surmise, which might tell eloquently upon his cause—such an advocate, would he not be blameworthy?Chapters 25-27 -- Postscript; Knights and Squires; Knights and Squires (1% in)
advocate = lawyer in colonial America
advocate = lawyer in colonial America
There are no more uses of "advocate" in Moby Dick.
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