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‖ apologia|æpəˈləʊdʒɪə|
[L., see apology n.]
= apology n. 1; esp. a written defence or justification of the opinions or conduct of a writer, speaker, etc.
The currency of the word is largely due to J. H. Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua, 1864.
1784J. Newton (title) Apologia. Four letters to a Minister of an independant Church: by a Minister of the Church of England. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 356 A very manful..apologia was that with which Miss Miller favoured the large audience. 1883Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. 613/1 The Duke [of Argyll] has put his own version of the story on record. This apologia is a pamphlet, entitled Crofts and Farms in the Hebrides. 1903Westm. Gaz. 20 Jan. 8/2 They may be taken as his ‘Apologia’—though not in any sense an apology—for the achievements of his official career. 1927A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. ii. 12 His [St. Mark's] Gospel is not an apologia to Jews but an apologia to the world of the truth of Christianity. |