proponent
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- a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an ideaSynonyms: advocateadvocatorexponentType of actor, doerKinds spokesperson, communist, neutralist, supporter, Platonist, ideologist, secularist, apologist, democrat, republican +32 more
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Pro·po′nent adjective
Origin: L. proponens, p. pr.
Making proposals; proposing.
Pro·po′nent noun
1. One who makes a proposal, or lays down a proposition. John Dryden
2. Law The propounder of a thing.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54