secularist vs advocator

secularist and advocator both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
secularist	Yes	No	No	No
advocator	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, advocator is a hypernym of secularist; that is, advocator is a word with a broader meaning than secularist:

secularist: an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education
advocator: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea

Other hypernyms of secularist include advocate, exponent, proponent.

secularist (noun)	advocator (noun)
an advocate of secularism; someone who believes that religion should be excluded from government and education	a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea