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Paraclete

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The advocate; one called to aid or support another. (The word paraclete is from the Greek para-kaleo, to call to; and advocate is from the Latin ad-voco, the same thing.)

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Paper Marriages
Paper-stainer (A)
Paphian
Papimany
Papyra
Papyri
Par. (A)
Par (At)
Paracelsists
Paraclete
Paradise
Paradise Lost
Paradise Regained (in four books)
Paradise Shoots
Paradise of Fools
Paradise and the Peri
Parallel
Paramatta
Parapet
Paraphernalia