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antapology en · NOUN

Etymology

From ant- + apology.

Meanings

1. (rare) A response to an apology.
   • I am confident you will have no publike uſe of them, for they will not dare to give a panctual Anſwer to your Antapology. Our Independents in the countrey are bold and pragmatical; I do in this corner make what oppoſition I can, and am reſolved ſo to continue, what hard meaſure ſoever I meet withal. 1646, Thomas Edwards, The Firſt and Second Part of Gangræna: […], 3rd edition, London: […] T.R. and E.M. […], page 14:
   • Antapologies come in two flavors: gracious acceptance and self-righteous fury. 2008, Ammon Shea, Reading the OED, New York, N.Y.: Perigee Books, →ISBN, page 10:
   • Nor has he acquainted us when Mr. Harding published his first or second Antapologies, nor when the Bishop went to Padua, nor how long he staid there, nor who were his partners in his visitation for the Queen. 1810, Christopher Wordsworth, Ecclesiastical Biography: […], volume IV, London: F. C. and J. Rivington, page 6:
   • Each party dedicates their books unto the Synod, and printed apologies and antapologies, making complaints that the adverſe party did impute unto the Synod that which they never ſaid, and bringing teſtimonies of the Fathers to confirm their own opinion. 1662, Alexander Petrie, “Century XVI”, in A Compendious History of the Catholick Church, […], The Hague: […] Adrian Vlack, page 255:

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