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Definition of Apologist
1. Noun. A person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution. "An apologist for capital punishment"
Generic synonyms: Advocate, Advocator, Exponent, Proponent
Derivative terms: Apology, Justify, Justify, Vindicate, Vindicate
Definition of Apologist
1. n. One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.
Definition of Apologist
1. Noun. One who makes an apology. ¹
2. Noun. One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apologist
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Apologist
1. One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity. Origin: Cf. F. Apologiste. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apologist
Literary usage of Apologist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nineteenth Century (1896)
"BISHOP BUTLERS apologist MR. GLADSTONE has in the last two numbers of this ...
It is, perhaps, only due to so eminent and so courteous an apologist that I ..."
2. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1864)
"From Bossuet and Pascal to the present day, amid all her great thinkers and
brilliant writers, she has scarcely had one great Christian apologist. ..."
3. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by Martha Joanna Lamb, Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-, John Austin Stevens (1880)
"BENEDICT ARNOLD AND HIS apologist The generous treatment of the Southern ...
And now an apologist has risen even for Benedict Arnold, who attempts to offset ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... Annotated Boot of Common Prayer, pp. 221-222. 290-298. New York. 1908; KL, Ü.
894-897. ROGERS, HENRY: Essayist and apologist; b. at St. Albans (19 ..."
5. Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz by Carl Schurz (1913)
"... if you set me down as an "apologist of violent methods" such as are used here
and there in the South. On the contrary, I abhor them as I abhor every ..."
6. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"JOHN CHRYSOSTOM constitutes himself their apologist: his treatise against the
detractors of monastic life. — His conduct towards them ..."
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