"apologetics" meaning in English

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Noun

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Etymology: From Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defense”), from ἀπολογοῦμαι (apologoûmai, “I speak in one's defense”), from ἀπόλογος (apólogos, “an account, story”), from ἀπό (apó, “from, off”) (see apo-) + λόγος (lógos, “speech”) + -ics. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la-lat|apologia}} Late Latin apologia, {{der|en|grc|ἀπολογία||a speech in defense}} Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología, “a speech in defense”), {{suffix|en||ics}} + -ics Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} apologetics (uncountable)
  1. A systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrine. Tags: uncountable Translations (field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position): دِفَاعِيَّات (difāʕiyyāt) [feminine, plural] (Arabic), апалаге́тыка (apalahjétyka) [feminine] (Belarusian), апологе́тика (apologétika) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 護教學 /护教学 (wu⁶ gaau³ hok⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), 護教學 /护教学 (hùjiàoxué) (Chinese Mandarin), apologetika [feminine] (Czech), apologetiek [feminine] (Dutch), apologetiikka (Finnish), apologétique [feminine] (French), Apologetik [feminine] (German), απολογητική (apologitikí) [feminine] (Greek), आपत्तिखण्डन (āpattikhaṇḍan) [masculine] (Hindi), apologetika (Hungarian), apologetika (Indonesian), apologetica [feminine] (Italian), 弁証学 (benshōgaku) (alt: べんしょうがく) (Japanese), 변증학 (byeonjeunghak) (alt: 辯證學) (Korean), apologetikk [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), apologetyka [feminine] (Polish), apologética [feminine] (Portuguese), apologetică [feminine] (Romanian), апологе́тика (apologétika) [feminine] (Russian), apologetika [feminine] (Slovak), apologetika [feminine] (Slovene), apologética [feminine] (Spanish), apologetik [common-gender] (Swedish), apolohetika (Tagalog), апологе́тика (apolohétyka) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. A branch of theology devoted to such a defense of Christianity specifically. Tags: uncountable Hypernyms: rhetoric
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Derived forms: counter-apologetics Related terms: apologetic, apologeticism, apologia, apologist, apologize, apology
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "counter-apologetics"
    }
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      "args": {
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      "name": "der"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "word": "apologetic"
    },
    {
      "word": "apologeticism"
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    {
      "word": "apologia"
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      "word": "apologist"
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    {
      "word": "apologize"
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      "word": "apology"
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        "A systematic defense of a position, or of religious or occult doctrine."
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        "A branch of theology devoted to such a defense of Christianity specifically."
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        }
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          "Christianity"
        ]
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      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "lang_code": "ar",
      "roman": "difāʕiyyāt",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "دِفَاعِيَّات"
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      "code": "be",
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      "roman": "apalahjétyka",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "апалаге́тыка"
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "lang_code": "bg",
      "roman": "apologétika",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "апологе́тика"
    },
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      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "lang_code": "yue",
      "roman": "wu⁶ gaau³ hok⁶",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "護教學 /护教学"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "lang_code": "cmn",
      "roman": "hùjiàoxué",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "護教學 /护教学"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "lang_code": "cs",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "lang_code": "nl",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetiek"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "lang_code": "fi",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "apologetiikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "lang_code": "fr",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologétique"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "lang_code": "de",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Apologetik"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "lang_code": "el",
      "roman": "apologitikí",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "απολογητική"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "lang_code": "hi",
      "roman": "āpattikhaṇḍan",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "आपत्तिखण्डन"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "lang_code": "hu",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "apologetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "lang_code": "id",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "apologetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "lang_code": "it",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetica"
    },
    {
      "alt": "べんしょうがく",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "lang_code": "ja",
      "roman": "benshōgaku",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "弁証学"
    },
    {
      "alt": "辯證學",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "lang_code": "ko",
      "roman": "byeonjeunghak",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "변증학"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "lang_code": "nb",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetikk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "lang_code": "pl",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetyka"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologética"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "lang_code": "ro",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "lang_code": "ru",
      "roman": "apologétika",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "апологе́тика"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "lang_code": "sk",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "lang_code": "sl",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "apologética"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "lang_code": "sv",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "apologetik"
    },
    {
      "code": "tl",
      "lang": "Tagalog",
      "lang_code": "tl",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "word": "apolohetika"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "lang_code": "uk",
      "roman": "apolohétyka",
      "sense": "field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "апологе́тика"
    }
  ],
  "word": "apologetics"
}

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