Crossword-Solution: APOLOGIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apologist | 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. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “APOLOGIST”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Arguer for the defense | 1 answer |
| PERSON who defends by argument | 1 answer |
| a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution | 1 answer |
| person who formally defends a cause | 1 answer |
| controversialist | 7 answers |
| arguer | 13 answers |
| Defender | 43 answers |
| disputant | 46 answers |
| eristic | 58 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with APOLOGIST (5)
Far-scattered bones, indeed! But if the reader cares to learn how some of them—or some part of some of them—found their way at length to such honourable sepulture, let him listen to the words of one who was their comrade in life and their apologist when they were dead.
Should she inform her father before going out that the estrangement of herself and Edgar was not so complete as he had imagined, and deemed desirable for her happiness? If she did so she must in some measure become the apologist of her husband, and she was not prepared to go so far.
These prohibitions were enforced by the Council of Arles in 314, and a modern Church apologist insists that every great assembly of the Church, from the Council of Elvira in 306 to that of Vienne in 1311, inclusive, solemnly condemned lending money at interest.
Those who labored to corrupt the doctrines of the gospel worked as yet in obscurity—G] 32 (return) [ In the account of the Gnostics of the second and third centuries, Mosheim is ingenious and candid; Le Clerc dull, but exact; Beausobre almost always an apologist; and it is much to be feared that the primitive fathers are very frequently calumniators.
That each soul is occasionally created and embodied in the moment of conception.—The last of these sentiments appears to have prevailed among the moderns; and our spiritual history is grown less sublime, without becoming more intelligible.] 9 (return) [ It was one of the fifteen heresies imputed to Origen, and denied by his apologist, (Photius, Bibliothec.
Quotes with APOLOGIST (3)
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.
Remaining for a moment with the question of legality and illegality: United Nations Security Council Resolution 1368, unanimously passed, explicitly recognized the right of the United States to self-defense and further called upon all member states 'to bring to justice the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attacks. It added that 'those responsible for aiding, supporting or harboring the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of those acts will be held acco…
Lewis was an apologist from temper, from conviction, and from modesty. From temper, for he loved argument. From conviction, being traditionally orthodox. From modesty, because he laid no claim either to the learning which would have made him a theologian or to the grace which would have made him a spiritual guide.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1970–1971).