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.