Apologist
[ə'pɒlədʒɪst]
Definition
(noun.) a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; 'an apologist for capital punishment'.
Editor: Rochelle--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) 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.
Checker: Shelia
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Defender, vindicator, supporter, advocate.
Checker: Wayne
Examples
- An apologist for dynamite told me once that society was divided into the weak and the strong, and there are people who draw a line between Philistia and Bohemia. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. Plato. The Republic.
- The apologists of business also justified a rupture with human decencies. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Richard