英语词汇devil-s advocate的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	devil-s advocate
词源	devil’s advocate. Deriving from the Latin Advocatus Diabo- li, the devil’s advocate was first an official appointed by the Ro- man Catholic church, his job to argue the case against a per- son’s canonization, or recognition as a holy person. From this the term came to mean anyone who argues against an idea to test it.
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