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    advocacy, one of the earliest and most important types of advocatus was the church advocate (advocatus ecclesiae). These were originally lay lords, who not...
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  • The advocatus diaboli (Latin for Devil's advocate) is a former official position within the Catholic Church, the Promoter of the Faith: one who "argued...
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  • The title of Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, or Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre, has been ascribed to Godfrey of Bouillon in his role as the first Latin ruler...
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    Kingdom of Jerusalem, refused the title of king choosing instead the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, that is Advocate or Defender of the Church of the Holy...
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    title of king, he agreed to rule as prince (princeps) under the title Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, or Advocate of the Holy Sepulchre. He was the second...
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    a term descended from mediaeval Latin vicedominus. Like the avoué or advocatus, the vidame was originally a secular official chosen by the bishop of...
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  • done. There also existed kronolän, which were managed by an advocatus, if the advocatus was a military commander, would be referred to as a "hövitsman"...
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  • the Sun i.e., "do not argue what is obviously/manifestly incorrect." advocatus diaboli Devil's advocate Someone who, in the face of a specific argument...
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  • Latin term advocatus: "παράκλητος [does not have] any independent meaning of its own, it is in fact a calque for the Latin term advocatus meaning a person...
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    distasteful. 'Lord Protector' has also been used as a rendering of the Latin Advocatus in the sense of a temporal Lord (such as a Monarch) who acted as the protector...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    governance of the city it was Godfrey who took leadership and the title of Advocatus Sancti Sepulchri, Defender of the Holy Sepulchre. The presence of troops...
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  • Term or phrase Definition and use advocatus diaboli Official who argues against an individual's beatification ebdomadarius Person in a cathedral who supervises...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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  • from a word Voyt (wójt), which was borrowed via German Vogt from Latin advocatus. Other versions may include Wojtenko (Polish or German spelling). Notable...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    Representative of Canada to the U.N. That same year, Blanchard was awarded Advocatus Emeritus by the Quebec Bar Association. In 2017, he was named as a member...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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  • Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    or delegate. Du Cange, after defining the word as defensor, patronus, advocatus, proceeds: Syndici maxime appellantur Actores universitatum, collegiorum...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    practised as an advocate, pleading cases before the emperors (probably as advocatus fisci, an important official of the imperial treasury). It was in 147...
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    Canonization Congregation for the Causes of Saints Maiorem hac dilectionem Advocatus Diaboli Oblatio vitae Positio Beatification and canonization process in...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    In 1264 Benedetto entered the Roman Curia, perhaps with the office of Advocatus. He served as secretary to Cardinal Simon de Brion, the future Pope Martin...
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  • if he was the same person as Udon, also count of Limburg from 1065 and advocatus of the Abbey of Sint-Truiden. He was the younger son of Waleran I, Count...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    advocate. At the time of Marcus Aurelius, he was the State Attorney (Advocatus fisci). However, he omitted the military tribunate from the cursus honorum...
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  • Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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    Ealdorman Viscount, Viscountess Castellan Burgrave, Burgravine Landgrave Advocatus Vidame Starosta Baron, Baroness Thane Lendmann Primor Boyar Ritter Baronet...
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