... century (perhaps the very notablest), was that council of clergymen, horror-struck at the idea of any diminution in our dread of hell, at which the last of English clergymen whom one would have expected to see in such a function, rose as the devil's advocate; to tell us how impossible it was we could get on ... — The Ethics of the Dust • John Ruskin
Words linked to "Devil's advocate" : debater, arguer
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