advocateship
(ˈædvəkət-ʃɪp)
[f. advocate n. + -ship.]
The office of an advocate: i.e.
1. of an intercessor; intercession, pleading, advocacy.
| a 1568 Coverdale Christ's Cross ix. Wks. III. 260 Christ's mediation, intercession and advocateship. 1656 Hardy Serm. xx. (1865) 125/2 The advocateship of Christ consists in a four-fold presentation. c 1680 H. Hallywell Sav. of Souls 71 (T.) This redargution of the world was made a part of the advocateship of the Holy Spirit. 1748 Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 232 So expect not any advocateship from me. |
2. of a legal pleader.
| 1611 Cotgr., Advocatie, an Advocateship; the duty or place of an Advocate. 1618 tr. Barneveld's Apol. G j, After the fifteenth yeare of my Aduocateships place. 1631 B. Jonson New Inn ii. vi. (T.) Leave your advocateship Except that we shall call you Orator Fly. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. II. x. ii. 580 Fran{cced}ois accordingly sat ‘in chambers’..even became an advocate; but did not in the least take to advocateship. 1867 ― Remin. (1881) II. 60 He was quitting his Lord Advocateship, and returning home. |
† 3. of the patron of a church; advocation, patronage. Obs.
| 1753 Chambers Cycl. Supp., Princes had also another title to advocate-ship, some of them pretending to be advocati nati of the churches within their dominions. |