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Word Meanings - COUNTENANCER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who countenances, favors, or supports.

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  • ADVOCATE
    advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or
  • PLEADER
    One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
  • DEFENDER
    One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
  • PROMOTER
    1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
  • MAINTAINER
    One who maintains.
  • SUPPORTER
    A knee placed under the cathead. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, supports; as, oxygen is a supporter of life. The sockets and supporters of flowers are figured. Bacon. The saints have a . . . supporter in all their miseries. South.
  • PROPAGATOR
    One who propagates; one who continues or multiplies.
  • UPHOLDER
    1. A broker or auctioneer; a tradesman. 2. An undertaker, or provider for funerals. The upholder, rueful harbinger of death. Gay. 3. An upholsterer. 4. One who, or that which, upholds; a supporter; a defender; a sustainer.
  • ADVOCATESHIP
    Office or duty of an advocate.
  • COUNTENANCER
    One who countenances, favors, or supports.
  • REPLEADER
    A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.
  • DISCOUNTENANCER
    One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
  • INTERPLEADER
    A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they
  • SUBADVOCATE
    An under or subordinate advocate.
  • IMPLEADER
    One who prosecutes or sues another.

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