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Advocation   Listen
noun
Advocation  n.  
1.
The act of advocating or pleading; plea; advocacy. (Archaic) "The holy Jesus... sits in heaven in a perpetual advocation for us."
2.
Advowson. (Obs.) "The donations or advocations of church livings."
3.
(Scots Law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.





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"Advocation" Quotes from Famous Books



... abbot is to be accused of simony, as well for taking money for advocation and putations of benefices, as for giving of orders, or, more truly, selling them, and that to such persons which have been rejected elsewhere, and of little learning ...
— Froude's Essays in Literature and History - With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc • James Froude


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