All 3 Uses of
advocate
in
Gulliver's Travels
- Whether advocates and orators had liberty to plead in causes manifestly known to be unjust, vexatious, or oppressive?
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *advocates = lawyers
- I assured his honour, "that the law was a science in which I had not much conversed, further than by employing advocates, in vain, upon some injustices that had been done me: however, I would give him all the satisfaction I was able."
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Now, in this case, I, who am the right owner, lie under two great disadvantages: first, my lawyer, being practised almost from his cradle in defending falsehood, is quite out of his element when he would be an advocate for justice, which is an unnatural office he always attempts with great awkwardness, if not with ill-will.
Chpt 4 (definition 2) *advocate = person who publicly speaks on behalf of
Definitions:
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(1) (advocate as in: an advocate in court) a lawyer or officer of the court in some jurisdictions in Europe, colonial America, and the military
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(2) (advocate as in: an advocate supporting) a person who publicly supports and works to advance a cause
or more rarely:
someone acting in the role of a defense lawyer in England's past and in some jurisdictions today