Apologia pro Vita Sua

American  

[ap-uh-loh-jee-uh proh vahy-tuh soo-uh, vee-tuh] / ˌæp əˈloʊ dʒi ə proʊ ˈvaɪ tə ˈsu ə, ˈvi tə /

noun

1. a religious autobiography (1864) of Cardinal John Henry Newman.

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Example Sentences

His Apologia pro Vita Sua, which he wrote in reply to an attack by Charles Kingsley, an Episcopal clergyman, is really, as its sub-title indicates, A History of His Religious Opinions.

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

This book, then, is not the author's Apologia pro Vita Sua.

From The New Theology by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)

The argument will be found very ingeniously stated in the book which Jefferson Davis subsequently wrote—professedly a history of the Southern Confederacy, really rather an Apologia pro Vita Sua.

From A History of the United States by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

See also Apologia pro Vita Sua, pp. 96-97.

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

Newman's reply was the Apologia pro Vita Sua, which he wrote in seven weeks, sometimes working twenty-two hours at a stretch, 'constantly in tears, and constantly crying out with distress'.

From Eminent Victorians by Strachey, Giles Lytton