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apologist Noun a person who offers a formal defence of a cause apologist a person who defends, in speech or writing, a faith, doctrine, idea, or action. See also: Argumentation
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It would have been a hard trial to any woman to stand by and see the office of apologist for her husband's misconduct quietly assumed by his male friend in her own house--and it was a trial to HER. English youth have been so educated time out of mind, and we have hundreds of thousands of apologists and admirers of injustice, misery, and brutality, as perpetrated among children. It was obvious that all this was the work of no ordinary thief, and perhaps inevitable that the name of Raffles should have been dragged from oblivion by callous disrespecters of the departed and unreasoning apologists for the police. |
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apologist - a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
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