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devil's advocate

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Main Entry: devil's advocate
Function: noun
Etymology: translation of New Latin advocatus diaboli
Date: 1760

1 : a Roman Catholic official whose duty is to examine critically the evidence on which a demand for beatification or canonization rests
2 : a person who champions the less accepted cause for the sake of argument


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