proponent
Noun
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A person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea (synset 109794206)
subtypes:
- apologist, justifier, vindicator - a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution
- constitutionalist - an advocate of constitutional government
- darwinian - an advocate of Darwinism
- democrat - an advocate of democratic principles
- populist - someone who advocates the rights of the common people over those of the elite
- 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)
- interpreter, representative, spokesperson, voice - an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose
- suffragist - an advocate of the extension of voting rights (especially to women)
- admirer, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, supporter - a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
- supremacist - a person who advocates the supremacy of some particular group or racial group over all others
- teleologist - advocate of teleology
- thatcherite - an advocate of Thatcherism
- unilateralist - an advocate of unilateralism
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