apologist

English

Etymology

From apology +‎ -ist, from French apologiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

1. (loosely) One who makes an apology.
   1. (usually) One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
      • 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 430:

        […] he will appear to many of the more speculatively minded intellectuals merely as a timid apologist of things as they are; at the same time he will be dismissed by the men of affairs as an impractical theorist.

      • 2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 5 April 2020:

        A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.

   2. (uncommon) Synonym of apologizer.

Derived terms

• Mopologist

Related terms

• apologete
• apologetic
• apologeticism
• apologetics
• apologia
• apologism
• apologize, apologise
• apologizer, apologiser
• apology

Translations

one who makes an apology

Danish: undskylder c

one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Armenian: ջատագով (hy) (ǰatagov) Belarusian: апалаге́т m (apalahjét), апалаге́тка f (apalahjétka), абаро́нца (abarónca), змага́р m (zmahár), змага́рка f (zmahárka), прыхі́льнік m (pryxílʹnik), прыхі́льніца f (pryxílʹnica) Bulgarian: апологе́т (bg) m (apologét), апологе́тка f (apologétka) Catalan: apologista m or f, apologeta m Chinese: Mandarin: 辯護士 / 辩护士 (zh) (biànhùshì) Czech: apologeta m, apologetka f Danish: forsvarer c, apologet c, skønmaler c Dutch: apologeet (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: apologeet (et) Finnish: apologeetta (fi) French: apologiste (fr) m or f German: Apologet (de) m, Apologetin f Hungarian: apologéta (hu) Indonesian: apologet Italian: apologista (it) m or f, apologeta m or f Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Polish: apologeta (pl) m, apologetka f, apologetyk m (dated) Portuguese: apologista (pt) m or f Romanian: apologet (ro) m, apologetă f Russian: апологе́т (ru) m (apologét), апологе́тка f (apologétka), защи́тник (ru) m (zaščítnik), защи́тница (ru) f (zaščítnica) (каки́х-либо взгля́дов), побо́рник (ru) m (pobórnik), побо́рница (ru) f (pobórnica) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: аполо̀ге̄т m Roman: apològēt (sh) m Slovak: apologéta m, apologétka f Spanish: apologista (es), apologeta Swedish: apologet (sv) c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: апологе́т (uk) m (apolohét), апологе́тка f (apolohétka), захисни́к m (zaxysnýk), захисни́ця f (zaxysnýcja), побо́рник m (pobórnyk), побо́рниця f (pobórnycja)

References

• “apologist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologiste.

Noun

apologist m (plural apologiști)

1. apologist

Declension

Declension of apologist

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	apologist	apologistul		apologiști	apologiștii
genitive-dative	apologist	apologistului		apologiști	apologiștilor
vocative	apologistule			apologiștilor