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Advocateship   Listen
noun
Advocateship  n.  Office or duty of an advocate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Advocateship" Quotes from Famous Books



... country house of Craigcrook, where, for more than thirty years, he spent all the spare time of an exceedingly happy life. Then we may jump some fifteen years to the great Reform contest which gave Jeffrey the reward, such as it was, of his long constancy in opposition, in the shape of the Lord Advocateship. He was not always successful as a debater; but he had the opportunity of adding a third reputation to those which he had already gained in literature and in law. He had the historical duty of piloting ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury



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