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English
Etymology
From advocate + -ess.
Noun
advocatess (plural advocatesses)
- (rare, obsolete) A female advocate.
- Synonyms: advocatress, advocatrice, advocatrix
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
- Therefore God hath provided us of an advocatess, who is gentle and sweet, in whom nothing that is sharp, is to be found.