APOLOGY


Meaning of APOLOGY in English

In literature, an autobiographical form in which a defense is the framework for discussion of the author's personal beliefs.

Examples include Plato 's Apology (4th century BC), in which Socrates answers his accusers by giving a history of his life and moral commitment, and John Henry Newman 's Apologia pro Vita Sua (1864), an examination of the principles that inspired his conversion to Roman Catholicism.

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