advocatus

• “Another crucial influence was Justus Möser, so-called advocatus patriae, famed defender of the Kleinstaat and seminal influence on historicism.”

  August Wilhelm Rehberg

• “He is therefore popularly known as the advocatus diaboli, i.e. "devil's lawyer".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

• “He held the office of Promotor Fidei --- paradoxically called advocatus diaboli --- for more than 20 years, before rising to the papacy (Benedict XIV) in 1740.”

  Te Deum laudamus!

• “However the prominent part the Germans had in these achievements as well as the lofty idea of the Roman Empire then prevailing led Otto I, the Great, to require Harold to recognize him as "advocatus", or lord protector of the Danish church, and even as "Lord Paramount".”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “Let me be your cynical advocatus diaboli and put it this way: Hitler survived 42 assassination attepts – Lincoln not even one.”

  Difference Between Theists, Agnostics and Atheists | My[confined]Space

• “It derives from Latin advocatus, from the past participle of advocare to summon, from ad- + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice.”

  Attorney, Lawyer, Barrister, Solicitor and Notary (English)

• “Peter on April 2, 2008 at 5: 04 am | Reply advocatus diabolis”

  “It was this long Mrs, honest it was!” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG

• “Formerly, during the canonization process of the Roman Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith (Latin: Promotor Fidei), or Devil's Advocate (Latin advocatus diaboli), was a canon lawyer appointed by the Church to argue against the canonization of the candidate.”

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• “Clarisse was an RPG character for the Space 1889 setting, which Marja here confuses with my advocatus vampyri dialogical persona, who tends to come up in the presence of her Christianity.”

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• “While there is no record of a university degree in either subject, his official duties as city orator and advocatus at Metz implied legal training, and the city's records refer to him as a doctor of laws.”

  Fictionaut: Loss of Faith

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