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: 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)
• 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 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