partitionist vs advocate

partitionist and advocate both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
partitionist	Yes	No	No	No
advocate	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, advocate is a hypernym of partitionist; that is, advocate is a word with a broader meaning than partitionist:

Other hypernyms of partitionist include advocator, exponent, proponent.

partitionist (noun)	advocate (noun)
an advocate of partitioning a country	a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea
	a lawyer who pleads cases in court

partitionist (verb)	advocate (verb)
	push for something
	speak, plead, or argue in favor of