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      • apology (n.) early 15c., "defense, justification," from Late Latin apologia, from Greek apologia "a speech in defense," from apologeisthai "to speak in one's defense," from apologos "an account, story," from apo "away from, off" (see apo-) + logos "speech" (see Logos).
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  2. Sep 24, 2022 · "defense, justification," 1784, the Latin form of apology (q.v.); popularized by J.H. Newman's "Apologia pro Vita Sua" (1864). It preserves the older sense of the English apology and the sense of the Greek original, especially as used by the Church fathers.

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

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      Es bewahrt die ältere Bedeutung des englischen apology und...

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  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. The earliest known use of the noun apology is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for apology is from 1533, in the writing of More. apology is a borrowing from Latin .

  5. Apr 16, 2009 · Latin and Greek expressions - apologise comes from Greek - started to be used, along with "feel remorse", "express regrets" and "being mortified". "But it's a very distancing, rather...

  6. The word "apology" originates from the Greek term ἀπολογία (apologia), which means "statement of defense, a speech in one's own defense." It is derived from the verb ἀπολογεῖσθαι (apologeisthai), which means "to speak in one's own defense, to defend oneself."

  7. 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!)

  8. Sep 24, 2022 · The old sense has since tended to go with the Latin form apologia (1784), a word known from early Christian writings in defense of the faith.

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