different between apologist vs vindicator

English

Etymology

apology +? -ist. From French apologiste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?l.?.d??st/

Noun

apologist (plural apologists)

1. One who makes an apology.
2. One who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution.
   • 15 October 2019, Aleksandar Hemon, "‘The Bob Dylan of Genocide Apologists’" in The New York Times

     A genocide denier is an apologist for the next genocide.

Synonyms

• (one who makes an apology): apologizer, apologiser

Related terms

• apologetic
• apologetics
• apologeticism
• apologia
• apologize, apologise
• apologizer, apologiser
• apology

Translations

References

• apologist in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Etymology

vindicate +? -or

Noun

vindicator (plural vindicators)

1. a person who vindicates

Latin

Etymology 1

From vindic? +? -tor.

Noun

vindic?tor m (genitive vindic?t?ris); third declension

1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) avenger, vindicator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

• Catalan: venjador
• French: vengeur
• Italian: vendicatore
• Portuguese: vingador
• Spanish: vengador

Etymology 2

Verb forms.

Verb

vindic?tor

1. second-person singular future passive imperative of vindic?
2. third-person singular future passive imperative of vindic?

References

• vindicator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vindicator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette