apologie

apologie (plural apologies)

1. Archaic spelling of apology.
   • 1609, William Heale, An apologie for women, or, An opposition to Mr. Dr. G. his assertion, who held in the act at Oxforde, anno 1608, that it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives‎^[1], Joseph Barnes:
   • 1659, John Evelyn, An apologie for the royal party : written in a letter to a person of the late Councel of State. By a lover of peace and of his country. With a touch at the pretended plea for the army‎^[2]:

Borrowed from Middle French apologie (from Latin) or directly Late Latin apologia, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογία (apología).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˌaː.poː.loːˈɣi/

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• Hyphenation: apo‧lo‧gie
• Rhymes: -i

apologie f (plural apologieën)

1. an apology (formal justification, defence)

• apologeet
• apologetiek
• apologetisch

• → Indonesian: apologi

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin apologia.

• IPA^(key): /a.pɔ.lɔ.ʒi/

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apologie f (plural apologies)

1. apology (formal justification, defence)

   faire l'apologie de quelque chose ― to defend something; to advocate for something

   • 2020 June 19, “Stopper la haine sur Internet”, in Le Monde‎^[3]:

     Ce texte, qui devait entrer en vigueur à partir du 1er juillet, créait une obligation pour les plates-formes et les moteurs de recherche de retirer sous vingt-quatre heures – et même dans l’heure pour les images pédopornographiques et l’apologie du terrorisme – les contenus « manifestement illicites » qui leur sont signalés, sous peine d’amendes pouvant aller jusqu’à 1,25 million d’euros.

     This text, which will become enforced beginning at the 1st of July, creats an obligation for platforms and search engines to remove in under twenty-four hours — and even within the hour for pedophilic pornography and justifications of terrorism — "manifestly illegal" contents of which they are alerted, under penalty of fines which can go up to 1.25 million euros.

• apologétique

• → Dutch: apologie
  • → Indonesian: apologi
• → English: apology
• → Romanian: apologie

• “apologie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

apologie f

1. plural of apologia

Borrowed from French apologie.

apologie f (plural apologii)

1. apology