Definition of "paraclete" []

• An advocate, especially the Holy Spirit. (noun)

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• "Strictly speaking the word paraclete means the defence counsel."
• "Moreover, it is stated lower down of this same martyr, that he was 'called the paraclete (or advocate) of the Christians, having the Paraclete in himself, the Spirit more abundantly than Zacharias.'"
• "And it is very observable, that this very word paraclete, though it be not a"