单词 | apologia |
释义 | apologian. = 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. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > justification > [noun] > vindication > formal or written justification?1568 apologetic1640 apologia1784 1784 J. Newton (title) Apologia. Four letters to a Minister of an independant Church: by a Minister of the Church of England. 1876 C. M. Davies Unorthodox London (rev. ed.) 356 A very manful..apologia was that with which Miss Miller favoured the large audience. 1883 Sat. 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. 1903 Westm. 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. 1927 A. 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1784 |
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