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advocatus diaboli

[ ahd-vaw-kah-toos dee-ah-baw-lee ]

noun

, Medieval Latin.


advocatus diaboli

/ ˌædvəˈkɑːtəs daɪˈæbəˌlaɪ /

noun

  1. another name for the devil's advocate
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Still, I must confess that, in advancing these arguments, I feel somewhat like an advocatus diaboli.

Discussion of the eternal servant problem is apt to be one-sided; it was quite time that we heard from the advocatus diaboli.

Then Arnold, or Arnold's secret advocatus diaboli, began upon another and quite different line.

The dramatist played the advocatus diaboli very cleverly, and the other side felt that its case had been stated fairly.

Jimmy, advocatus diaboli in the matter, put the case for wrong-doing as strongly as he could.

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