Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity. It is not my intention to make an apology for my poem; some will think it needs no excuse, and others will receive none. Dryden.
An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.
Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift. He goes to work devising apologies for window curtains. Dickens.
To offer an apology. [Obs.] For which he can not well apology. J. Webster.
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