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[ noun ] a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

Indeed , it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ_Church and Regius_Professor of Ecclesiastical History , who fathered this most peculiar view , and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance_English at Cambridge , who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent .

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