apologetism

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noun

apologism

Scrabble 16

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nounapologetism (uncountable)
  1. rareuncountableapologism

    Joe is letting his Lubavitch apologetism get ahead of him. I know he has many friends in Lubavitch, we even have one in common (Zev). But the idiocy of some in Lubavitch is still idiocy.

    1997 January 5, Jonathan J. Baker, “LIVING WITH MOSHIACH, Parshat Vayigash, 5757”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet)
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    Secondly, some contextualists have previously stated that by constantly trying to draw links between the Medieval thought and contemporary philosophy, historiographers evoke apologetism rather than develop the field in its own right.

    2023, Julita Slipkauskaitė, Ockham and Paris Ockhamists: Towards a New Approach to the Study of Late Medieval Philosophy, Vilnius University

    This very chapter reports the findings of an interdisciplinary cross‑cultural inquiry into the constitutive moments of routinized sincere hypocrisy, socioculturally normalized (engineered) as apologetism.

    2026, Vlatan Sutanovac, “Language Games as Mind Games”, in Vlatan Sutanovac, editor, Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind

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