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advocation

advocation noun: advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.

Noun

advocation (countable and uncountable, plural advocations)

  1. (archaic) Advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
  2. (UK) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
  3. (Scots law) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.

advocation meaning in Tamil

advocation in Tamil

கருத்து முனைவு

Forms of advocation

pluraladvocations

Origin of advocation

From Latin advocātiō. Doublet of advowson

Words formed from advocation

Questions about advocation

What does advocation mean?
Advocation means advocacy; the act of advocating or pleading.
What is advocation in Tamil?
Advocation in Tamil is கருத்து முனைவு. See Advocation meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is advocation?
Advocation is a noun.
What is the plural of advocation?
The plural of advocation is advocations.

Words near advocation in the dictionary

  1. advocatess
  2. advocatesses
  3. advocateth
  4. advocati
  5. advocating
  6. advocation
  7. advocational
  8. advocationally
  9. advocations
  10. advocative
  11. advocator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: advocation (page history and authors); advocation (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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