ardent advocate

collocation in English

meaningsofardentandadvocate

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ardent
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈɑː.dənt/us
/ˈɑːr.dənt/
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advocate
noun[C]
uk
/ˈæd.və.kət/us
/ˈæd.və.kət/
a lawyer who defends someone in a ...
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(Definition ofardentandadvocatefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He said that he had a teetotaller friend a veryardentadvocateof the temperance cause— who was elected to a local authority.
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He has always been anardentadvocateof his own position.
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I have myself been in the past anardentadvocateof some of those schemes.
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I have never been anardentadvocateof entry.
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It was particularly welcome to me to see that he is now such anardentadvocateof public ownership.
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I make a plea as anardentadvocateof modernisation.
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I am anardentadvocateof the comprehensive reforms of the past 30 years.
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He is a most sincere andardentadvocateof his policy.
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He was a well-known figure abroad before he was prominent here, and his international interests led him to be anardentadvocateof peace.
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Nobody, even the mostardentadvocateof a series of bilateral pacts, would suggest that we should deliberately try to exclude trade with any other country in the world.
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I have found in my lifetime that the repentant sinner in many cases becomes a moreardentadvocateof that which he has previously ignored or transgressed.
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He was a skillful operator, whose name was long attached to a ligature he devised; and he was anardentadvocateof inoculation.
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She is anardentadvocateof contemporary music.
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He was anardentadvocateof women in the study of medicine.
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Merrill was anardentadvocateof temperance and was always ready to give his countenance and support to temperance movements.
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In fact, the most ardent advocates of free enterprise were often those most opposed to clergy themselves doing business.
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Dillon was anardentadvocateof religious liberty, and an uncompromising enemy of intolerance in every shape.
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Staszic was a strong partisan of reforms and anardentadvocatefor the interests of the lower classes.
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Butler was anardentadvocateof slavery.
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We all have ardent advocates of various priorities knocking at doors with special needs.
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