advocatedadj.

1807 Christian Observer May 292/1 Read onwards for a confirmation of the advocated sense.

1841 Metropolitan July 88 This is..a class consideration, and every class, or rather every representation of a class, argues the question well for the interest of the advocated section of the community.

1905 Med. Rec. 25 Mar. 454/2 This table could be continued at length, but the above sufficiently illustrates the value of the advocated procedure.

1989 S. H. Schneider Global Warming (1990) viii. 248 ‘Selective inattention’—that is, choosing from the wide range of available information those parts of the technical story that would seem to bolster their advocated solution.

2008 K. Ostrikov Plasma Nanoscience Pref. p. xix The benefits of using the advocated ‘cause and effect’ approach.