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apostle

  • [ apo < G. "away from"]
noun A leader or a teacher of a (new) faith or movement.

With her 1962 book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson becomes an apostle of environmental protection, warning against chemicals toxic to the earth and its creatures.


apostolic adj.



STELLEIN
< G. "to put," "to place"
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.----Mark Twain
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