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Definition of Apologetic
1. Adjective. Offering or expressing apology. "An apologetic manner"
Similar to: Defensive, Justificative, Justificatory, Self-deprecating
Derivative terms: Apology, Apology, Excuse
Antonyms: Unapologetic
Definition of Apologetic
1. a. Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing; as, an apologetic essay.
Definition of Apologetic
1. Adjective. Having the character of apology; regretfully excusing ¹
2. Adjective. (dated) Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apologetic
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apologetic
Literary usage of Apologetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Source Book for Ancient Church History: From the Apostolic Age to the by Joseph Cullen Ayer (1913)
"These were the apologetic conception of Christianity as primarily a revealed
philosophy (§ 32), and the so-called Asia Minor school of theology, ..."
2. Theological Propædeutic: A General Introduction to the Study of Theology by Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson (1893)
"IDKA AND AIM OP apologetic. apologetic or apologetic Theology is the proper
scientific term for what is popularly called " Evidences of Christianity. ..."
3. St. Paul's Conception of Christianity by Alexander Balmain Bruce (1894)
"The answers to these questions constitute the Pauline apologetic. It is probable
that the apologetic ideas of his system came to the apostle latest of all; ..."
4. Primitive Christianity: Its Writings and Teachings in Their Historical by Otto Pfleiderer (1911)
"THE APOLOGY OF ARISTIDES THE distinction of being the earliest apologetic; writing
may be claimed for the canonical Hook of the Acts, which, ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The apologetic material developed by what one may call the more philosophical of
the apologists (Aristides, Athenagoras, Tatian, ..."
6. Catholicism: Roman and Anglican by Andrew Martin Fairbairn (1899)
"Romanticism was a revolt against the reign 1 \Vhat is here described as the
literature of the new Catholic apologetic, may be held as represented by the ..."
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