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  1. Sep 24, 2022 · It preserves the older sense of the English apology and the sense of the Greek original, especially as used by the Church fathers. In common Greek, apologia refers to the speech that an accused person delivered in court, rejecting the charges filed against him or her.

    • 한국어 (Korean)

      apology 뜻: 사과; 15세기 초, "방어, 변명"은 라틴어 apologia에서 유래되었으며, 그리스어...

    • Deutsch (German)

      "Verteidigung, Rechtfertigung", 1784, die lateinische Form...

    • Apological

      The original English sense of "self-justification" yielded a...

    • Apologise

      word-forming element used to make verbs, Middle English...

    • Apologia

      apologia. (n.) "defense, justification," 1784, the Latin...

    • Apophthegm

      "short, pithy, instructive saying," 1550s, from Greek...

    • Aponeurosis

      before vowels neur-, word-forming element meaning...

    • Instance

      Meaning "to serve example late 14c., "an instance typical of...

  2. Oct 22, 2024 · Combining both accessibility and authority, The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins describes the origins and development of over 3,000 words and phrases in the English language.

  3. Apology comes to English from the Greek roots of apo- (“away from, off”) and logia (from logos, meaning “speech”). The word's earliest meaning in English was “something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others to be wrong or of what may be liable to disapprobation.”

  4. In romance languages -- probably in latin too -- apologia, apologie and so forth mean something akin to "praise" or "defense". (Not exactly; for example, there's the Apology of Socrates by Plato, in which he's by no means asking for forgiveness for his friend!)

  5. What does the noun apology mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun apology . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

  6. the word apology, which is still found in modern dictionaries (cf. the Oxford Dictionary, 1989), is so narrow and technical that it was probably never in common use.

  7. May 16, 2018 · This paper explores two different methods of tracing a specific speech act in a historical corpus. As an example, the development of apologies is investiga.

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