0 a person who supports a particular belief or political system, especially an unpopular one, and speaks or writes in defence of it:
He focused on anthropology to the exclusion of modern politics and accepted too readily the scholarship of apologists for empire.
But, more important, he challenges political scientists critical of ethnicity, as well as apologists, to re-examine their bias against it.
The apologists literally had to write their way past their own liberal frameworks and metaphors.
The evil counsellor in this period, as these texts suggest, is increasingly characterized as an apologist for tyranny, often with his own imperial ambitions.
As a result, these apologists turn to the rights of the individual as the fundamental political notion.
This does indeed reflect a contemporary sensibility with which it is important that an apologist be in tune.
None of the three apologists attempted to explain away their eccentric exploits medically, even though this was a standard polemical ploy.
However, there are two items of good news for the theistic apologist.
