apologist

From apology +‎ -ist. From French apologiste.

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɒl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/

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apologist (plural apologists)

1. (broadly) One who makes an apology.
   1. (usually) 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.

   2. (uncommon) Synonym of apologizer.

• “apologist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French apologiste.

apologist m (plural apologiști)

1. apologist