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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

Coleman's executors sold the place to Alexander Barclay, comptroller of His Majesty's Customs at Philadelphia, and the grandson of Robert Barclay of Ury, the noted Quaker theologian and "Apologist."

From The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia by Cousins, Frank

Melito, naturally, is not cited by Tischendorf at all, but the English Apologist, with greater zeal, we think, than critical discretion, forces him into service as evidence for the Gospels and a New Testament Canon.

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




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