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apologist|əˈpɒlədʒɪst|
[a. Fr. apologiste, f. Gr. ἀπολογία defence, after ἀνταγωνιστ-ής, σοϕιστής, etc.: see apology and -ist.]
One who apologizes for, or defends by argument; a professed literary champion.
1640Bp. Hall Episc. i. 12 The Apologist professeth for them, that they greatly desired to conserve the government of the Bishops. 1728Young Love Fame vi. (1757) 156 Thus pleads the devil's fair apologist. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xv. (1862) 233 Mr. Hume, the staunch apologist of..all the Stuarts. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi vii. (1870) 184 Never was the heathen creed..so sublimated, as when it perished under the blows of the Christian apologists. |