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To start from the beginning: 'apologetics' derives from the Greek apologia, meaning 'defense' (as, for instance, a court-room defense), and it means just that: the giving of reasoned defenses.— blog.kennypearce.net
The word "apologist" comes from the Greek word apologia, translated as "defense" or "answer" in 1 Pet.— PoP cULtuRe MiX
Terror Famine as a "lie" and a "slander"; the following year he published a 16,000-word apologia for Stalin's mass murders.— Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
My apologia was accepted by every one who counted.— Nobody's Man
Half of the long apologia is a criticism not of those who feast fools in their folly, but of the fools who require a caterer for the feast; it is a study of the methods by which dupes solicit and educate a knave.— Robert Browning
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