apologist

apologist

English

Etymology

apology +‎ -ist. From French apologiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

1. One who makes an apology.
2. One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
   • 15 October 2019, Aleksandar Hemon, "‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’" in The New York Times

     A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide.

Synonyms

• (one who makes an apology): apologizer, apologiser

Related terms

• apologetic
• apologetics
• apologeticism
• apologia
• 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: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: апалагет m (apalahjet), апалагетка f (apalahjetka), абаронца (abarónca), змагар m (zmahar), змагарка f (zmaharka), прыхільнік m (pryxilʹnik), прыхільніца f (pryxilʹnica) Catalan: apologista m or f, apologeta m Chinese: Mandarin: 辯護士／辩护士 (zh) (biànhùshì) Czech: apologeta m Danish: forsvarer c, apologet c, skønmaler c Dutch: apologeet (nl) m Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: apologeetta (fi) German: Apologet (de) m Hungarian: please add this translation if you can 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), защи́тник (ru) m (zaščítnik) (каки́х-либо взгля́дов), побо́рник (ru) m (pobórnik) Serbo-Croatian: apologet (sh) m, апологет m Slovak: please add this translation if you can Spanish: apologista (es), apologeta Swedish: apologet (sv) c Turkish: please add this translation if you can Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can

References

• apologist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French apologiste.

Noun

apologist m (plural apologiști)

1. apologist

Declension

Declension of apologist

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) apologist	apologistul	(niște) apologiști	apologiștii
genitive/dative	(unui) apologist	apologistului	(unor) apologiști	apologiștilor
vocative	apologistule		apologiștilor