Apology
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Apology can mean a formal justification or defense, such as:
- The prototype of such "apologies": The Apology of Socrates, as written down by Plato, see Apology (Plato)
- The Apology of Socrates, as written down by Xenophon, see Apology (Xenophon)
- Philipp Melanchthon's Apology of the Augsburg Confession
- François-René de Chateaubriand's Génie du christianisme
- Cardinal Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua
- G. H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology
- Colley Cibber's An Apology for the life of Colley Cibber
| It can also be defined as "to express remorse for something one has done wrong." This derives from the original meaning of the Greek term as identified above.
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