a person who advocates a theory, proposal, or project (理论、倡议、项目的)提议者,建议者;支持者 a collection of essays by both critics and proponents of graphology. 一本兼有批评家和倡导者所写的关于笔迹学的论文集。
语源
late 16th cent.: from Latin proponent- 'putting forth', from the verb proponere (see propound)