Apologia Definition

ăpə-lōjē-ə, -jə
noun
A formal defense or justification.
American Heritage
An apology or formal defense of an idea, religion, etc., esp. such a defense of one's own beliefs or conduct.
Webster's New World

A written defense of a position or belief.

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Noun

Singular:
apologia
Plural:
apologias

Origin of Apologia

  • Latin apology apology

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Apologia Sentence Examples

  • It was a popular yet thoroughgoing defence of the whole Protestant position, perhaps the best apologia for the Reformation that was ever written.

  • According to Suetonius (Augustus, 94) he foretold the greatness of the future emperor on the day of his birth, and Apuleius (Apologia, 42) records.

  • Whether he meant it so or not, the saint's argument became a programme and an apologia for the imperializing of the Western Church under the leadership of Rome during the middle ages.

  • Invectivarum in Hieronymum Libri II; (4) Apologia pro Fide Sua ad Anastasium Pontificem; (5) Historia Eremitica - consisting of the lives of thirty-three monks of the Nitrian desert; 1 (6) Expositio Symboli, a commentary on the creed of Aquileia comparing it with that of Rome, which is valuable for its evidence as to church teaching in the 4th century.

  • Consequently, what Major has done is to have written an apologia and a defense.

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