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apologist

[uh-pol-uh-jist] / əˈpɒl ə dʒɪst /
NOUN
devil's advocate
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NOUN
devil's advocate
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Apologist for him are driven to contortions to remain in support.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2017

Apologist Maynard's history of American Catholicism since the Revolution is more plausible, no less colorful.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Tatian, the prominent Apologist, who joined them, gave this sect a more complete canon, an important fact about which was its inclusion of Epistles of Paul.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

There is one very important matter, however, which our Apologist has omitted to point out, and which, it seems to us, decides the case—the context in the Homily.

From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Cassels, Walter Richard

The greatest paradox the Apologist has to assert is connected by him with the most impressive remembrance possessed by his readers as philosophers.

From History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil




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