Advocate and Defendant

Advocate

Advocate noun - A person who actively supports or favors a cause.

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Defendant and advocate are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Defendant" instead a noun "Advocate".

Nearby Words: advocacy, advocated, advocating

Defendant noun - A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused.

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Advocate and defendant are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advocate" instead a noun "Defendant".

Nearby Words: defend, defender, defending

female	female advocate	female defendant
annoying	annoying advocate	annoying defendant
actual	actual advocate	actual defendant
main	main advocate	main defendant
Other adjectives: young, religious, last.

The defendant in that action was represented by the preeminent advocate of that day, and raised the defense that the plaintiff was a foreign prince with no standing to sue in an American Court.

Source: Literature / The Devil and Daniel Webster
The defendant's spiritual advisor, a pro-life advocate who insists on making a jury debate the value of the "preservation of life" argument, claims he was the defendant's co-conspirator, having provided the gun and transportation for him to kill the doctor.

Source: Debate and Switch
So while, in Real Life, you MAY see a victim's advocate making submissions at sentencing in many jurisdictions, there's no way in hell that Murdock would have been making arguments in court and getting annoyed that the defendant was acquitted.

Source: Hollywood Law

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