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Definition of apologist :
One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.
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- As the apologist Minucius Felix states, the Egyptian gods had become entirely Roman. - "The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism", Franz Cumont.
- Nor does the better- than- thou woman realize the apologist claim of Lecky that " though she may be the supreme type of vice, she is also the most efficient guardian of virtue. - "Anarchism and Other Essays", Emma Goldman.
- Let me, therefore, be for a page or two the apologist, nay, rather the panegyrist, of the college oarsman, with whom many of my happiest hours have been spent. - "Rowing", Rudolf Chambers Lehmann.
