Avocation vs Advocation - What's the difference?
avocation | advocation |
(obsolete) A calling away; a diversion.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 204:
A hobby or recreational or leisure pursuit.
* 1934 , Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time
*:But yield who will to their separation,
*:My object in living is to unite
*:My avocation and my vocation
*:As my two eyes make one in sight.
That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
(archaic) The act of advocating or pleading.
(British, legal) The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in the church.
(Scotland, legal) The process of removing a cause from an inferior court to the supreme court.
As nouns the difference between avocation and advocation
is that avocation is a calling away; a diversion while advocation is the act of advocating or pleading.avocation
English
(wikipedia avocation)Noun
(en noun)- But though she could neither sleep nor rest in her bed, yet, having no avocation from it, she was found there by her father at his return from Allworthy's, which was not till past ten o'clock in the morning.