Meaning of PROPONENT
| Pronunciation: | | pru'pownunt
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| | Definition: | | [n] a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea |
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| | Synonyms: | | advocate, advocator, exponent |
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| | See Also: | | admirer, apologist, booster, champion, constitutionalist, Darwinian, democrat, federalist, friend, gnostic, human, humanist, ideologist, ideologue, individual, internationalist, interpreter, irredentist, irridentist, isolationist, Jansenist, justifier, Maoist, Marxist, mortal, nationalist, neoclassicist, neutralist, nullifier, partisan, partitionist, person, Platonist, populist, presenter, pro-lifer, protagonist, protectionist, representative, republican, ritualist, ruralist, secessionist, secularist, separatist, somebody, someone, soul, spokesperson, sponsor, suffragist, supporter, supremacist, teleologist, Thatcherite, unilateralist, vindicator, voice, zealot | |
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\Pro*po"nent\, a. [L. proponens, p. pr.]
Making proposals; proposing.
\Pro*po"nent\, n.
1. One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition.
--Dryden.
2. (Law) The propounder of a thing.
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