Plural of apologia; formal written or spoken defenses of a belief, action, or person.
From Late Latin apologia, from Greek apologia 'a speaking away,' from apo- 'away' + -logia 'speech.' The word evolved from its legal meaning (defense in court) to mean any formal justification or defense of ideas.
The word apologia has been used for centuries by philosophers and theologians to defend unpopular ideas—when Galileo wrote defenses of heliocentrism, he was writing apologias, not apologizing in the modern sense!
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