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.

• See The Apology (Seinfeld episode)

See also

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• Apologetics
• Forgiveness
• Non-apology apology

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