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apologist

[ uh-pol-uh-jist ]

noun

  1. a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.
  2. Ecclesiastical.
    1. Also a·pol·o·gete [] a person skilled in apologetics.
    2. one of the authors of the early Christian apologies in defense of the faith.


apologist

/ əˈpɒlədʒɪst /

noun

  1. a person who offers a defence by argument
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of apologist1

First recorded in 1630–40; either from apolog(y) ( def ) + -ist ( def ) or from French apologiste
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Example Sentences

Some right-wing pundits become apologists for Putin’s cringeworthy defenders.

Even apologist Greg Gutfeld slammed this so-called apology tour.

Mike Daisey, serial liar and non-apologist, actually listened.

Hardly an apologist for Vienna, Byron still found these tracts too extreme and in need of censoring.

I have been vilified by some on the Left for being an apologist for colonialism, racism, and genocide.

The NBA player has become a paid apologist for the North Korean regime.

Thus, from sheer lack of knowledge, the public accept the Christian apologist's assertions as demonstrated truth.

He regards Malthus as an apologist for an unjust inequality.

I am not writing thus in any sense as the apologist of Spiritualism.

"Your cheerful compatriot is right," said Ethan, shaken suddenly out of his rôle as Nature's apologist.

He now constituted himself the literary apologist of the Elizabethan settlement.

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