apologia

plural apologias · plural apologiae

1. A written defense of a position or belief.

   Although I've enumerated some of the academic traditions and debates that have animated this book, it is not my purpose to offer a full apologia in these brief pages.

   1999, Judith Butler, Gender Trouble, Preface

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   “Gone With the Wind” was published in 1936, and despite heroic efforts over the last seven decades to transform it into something else, the novel stands as an apologia for the Old South — […]

   2007 November 4, Stephen L. Carter, “Almost a Gentleman”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

   The apologia his [Gabriel García Márquez] sons contribute at the beginning of the book is unconvincing, and their final excuse is particularly hard to swallow:[…]

   2024 March 16, Chris Power, “Unfinished business”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11

   Synonyms: apology, apologism