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Apologies
- noun - a formal written defense of something you believe in strongly
- a poor example; "it was an apology for a meal"; "a poor excuse for an automobile"
- an expression of regret at having caused trouble for someone; "he wrote a letter of apology to the hostess"
Apologise
- verb - acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
Apologist
- noun - a person who argues to defend or justify some policy or institution; "an apologist for capital punishment"
Apologize
- verb - acknowledge faults or shortcomings or failing; "I apologized for being late"; "He apologized for the many typoes"
- defend, explain, clear away, or make excuses for by reasoning; "rationalize the child's seemingly crazy behavior"; "he rationalized his lack of success"
Apologues
- noun - a short moral story (often with animal characters)
Apomictic
- adjective - (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction
- of or relating to a plant that reproduces by apomixis
Apophases
- noun - mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
Apophasis
- noun - mentioning something by saying it will not be mentioned
Apophatic
- adjective - of or relating to the belief that God can be known to humans only in terms of what He is not (such as `God is unknowable')
Apophyses
- noun - (anatomy) a natural outgrowth or projection on an organ or body part such as the process of a vertebra
- (botany) a natural swelling or enlargement: at the base of the stalk or seta in certain mosses or on the cone scale of certain conifers