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| n. (person) | 1. advocate, advocator, exponent, proponent | a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ apologist, justifier, vindicator | a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution.; "an apologist for capital punishment" |
| ~ constitutionalist | an advocate of constitutional government. |
| ~ darwinian | an advocate of Darwinism. |
| ~ populist, democrat | an advocate of democratic principles. |
| ~ federalist | an advocate of federalism. |
| ~ gnostic | an advocate of Gnosticism. |
| ~ humanist, humanitarian | an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans. |
| ~ ideologist, ideologue | an advocate of some ideology. |
| ~ internationalist | an advocate of internationalism. |
| ~ irredentist, irridentist | an advocate of irredentism. |
| ~ isolationist | an advocate of isolationism in international affairs. |
| ~ jansenist | an advocate of Jansenism. |
| ~ libertarian | an advocate of libertarianism. |
| ~ maoist | an advocate of Maoism. |
| ~ marxist | an advocate of Marxism. |
| ~ nationalist | an advocate of national independence of or a strong national government. |
| ~ neoclassicist | an advocate of neoclassicism. |
| ~ neutralist | an advocate of neutrality in international affairs. |
| ~ nullifier | an advocate of nullification; someone who believes that a state can resist federal laws. |
| ~ drumbeater, partisan, zealot | a fervent and even militant proponent of something. |
| ~ partitionist | an advocate of partitioning a country. |
| ~ platonist | an advocate of Platonism. |
| ~ pro-lifer | an advocate of full legal protection for embryos and fetuses; someone opposed to legalized induced abortion. |
| ~ presenter, sponsor | an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.). |
| ~ protectionist | an advocate of protectionism. |
| ~ republican | an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy). |
| ~ ritualist | an advocate of strict observance of ritualistic forms. |
| ~ ruralist | an advocate of rural living. |
| ~ secessionist | an advocate of secessionism. |
| ~ secularist | an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education. |
| ~ separationist, separatist | an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union). |
| ~ spokesperson, representative, interpreter, voice | an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose.; "the meeting was attended by spokespersons for all the major organs of government" |
| ~ suffragist | an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women). |
| ~ admirer, booster, protagonist, supporter, champion, friend | a person who backs a politician or a team etc..; "all their supporters came out for the game"; "they are friends of the library" |
| ~ supremacist | a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or race over all others. |
| ~ teleologist | advocate of teleology. |
| ~ thatcherite | an advocate of Thatcherism. |
| ~ unilateralist | an advocate of unilateralism. |
| n. (person) | 2. exponent | someone who expounds and interprets or explains. |
| ~ intellectual, intellect | a person who uses the mind creatively. |
| n. (communication) | 3. exponent, index, power | a mathematical notation indicating the number of times a quantity is multiplied by itself. |
| ~ degree | the highest power of a term or variable. |
| ~ mathematical notation | a notation used by mathematicians. |
| ~ logarithm, log | the exponent required to produce a given number. |
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