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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

Irenæus also starts, as Apologist and Antignostic, with the God who is the First Cause.

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

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

In 1809 he married Margaret, daughter of Robert Barclay, of Ury, descended from the celebrated Barclay, the Apologist for the Quakers. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles




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