to put forward arguments against or objections to a proposition—which one may actually agree with—purely to test the validity of the proposition. (The devil's advocate was given the role of opposing the canonization of a saint in the medieval Church in order to prove that the grounds for canonization were sound.) • I agree with your plan. I'm just playing the devils advocate so you'll know-what the opposition will say. • Mary offered to play devils advocate and argue against our case so that we would find out any flaws in it.
Devil's advocate
If someone plays Devil's advocate in an argument, they adopt a position they don't believe in just for the sake of the argument
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