apologist
noun/əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/
Etymology From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.
› One who makes an apology.
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Broadly, Usually One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
- […] 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.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:
- A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide. […] Mr. Handke is the Bob Dylan of genocide apologists.2019 October 15, Aleksandar Hemon, “‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Apr 2020:
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Broadly, Uncommon Synonym of apologizer.
- Derived terms
- counter-apologist, Mopologist
- Related terms
- apologete, apologetic, apologeticism, apologetics, apologia, apologism, apologize, apologise, apologizer, apologiser, apology