To advocate for or support a cause; to act as a lawyer or legal representative (rare/archaic).
Derived from the same Latin root as 'avocat'—'advocatus'—meaning to call upon or summon for aid, which evolved into both noun and verb forms in English legal language.
Medieval lawyers literally 'avocated' cases—they were called (vocare) to plead, making this verb a living relic of how Latin shaped the entire justice system.
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