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active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something

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  • Here then is the real question the word "protagonism" conceals, which this year's Meeting proposes for our reflection: In what does happiness consist?
  • It is not a matter of either antagonism or protagonism for any specific cause.
  • This is the protagonism that the title of this year's Rimini Meeting seeks to propose anew.
  • Even the most compelling characters and I'm grading on a curve here don't come close to protagonism.
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