apologist

[ uh-pol-uh-jist ]

/ əˈpɒl ə dʒɪst /

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noun

a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.

Ecclesiastical.

Also a·pol·o·gete [uh-pol-uh-jeet]. /əˈpɒl əˌdʒit/. a person skilled in apologetics.
one of the authors of the early Christian apologies in defense of the faith.

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Origin of apologist

1630–40; apolog(y) + -ist or <French apologiste

Words nearby apologist

Apollyon, apologetic, apologetics, apologia, Apologia pro Vita Sua, apologist, apologize, apologue, apology, apolune, apomict

How to use apologist in a sentence

Some right-wing pundits become apologists for Putin’s cringeworthy defenders.
Romney is right: MAGA Republicans are ‘almost treasonous’|Jennifer Rubin|February 28, 2022|Washington Post
Even apologist Greg Gutfeld slammed this so-called apology tour.
The Fox News Apology Tour|Dean Obeidallah|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Mike Daisey, serial liar and non-apologist, actually listened.
The Redemption of Fabulist Mike Daisey|Melissa Leon|June 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hardly an apologist for Vienna, Byron still found these tracts too extreme and in need of censoring.
Poet and Rake, Lord Byron Was Also an Interventionist With Brains and Savvy|Michael Weiss|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I have been vilified by some on the Left for being an apologist for colonialism, racism, and genocide.
Once Again, the Anti-Defamation League Defames|Jay Michaelson|October 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The NBA player has become a paid apologist for the North Korean regime.
Dennis Rodman’s Deal With North Korea Is an Outrage|Michael Moynihan|September 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Thus, from sheer lack of knowledge, the public accept the Christian apologist's assertions as demonstrated truth.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
He regards Malthus as an apologist for an unjust inequality.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen
I am not writing thus in any sense as the apologist of Spiritualism.
Mystic London:|Charles Maurice Davies
"Your cheerful compatriot is right," said Ethan, shaken suddenly out of his rôle as Nature's apologist.
The Open Question|Elizabeth Robins
He now constituted himself the literary apologist of the Elizabethan settlement.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 15, Slice 4|Various

British Dictionary definitions for apologist

apologist

/ (əˈpɒlədʒɪst) /

noun

a person who offers a defence by argument

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