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apologist

noun
/əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

Etymology

From apology + -ist, from French apologiste.

  1. derived from ἀπολογία
  2. derived from apologia
  3. borrowed from apologie
  4. suffixed as apologist — “apology + -ist”

Definitions

  1. One who makes an apology.

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

The neighborhood

Derived

counter-apologist, Mopologist

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA