apologetisk

Danish

Etymology

Latin apologeticus

Adjective

apologetisk (neuter apologetisk, plural and definite singular attributive apologetiske)

  1. (theology) apologetic (referring to the defense of the faith)

Swedish

Etymology

From Latin apologeticus, from Ancient Greek ἀπολογητικός (apologētikós). First attested in 1816.

Adjective

apologetisk

  1. (theology) apologetic (relating to apologetics)
    • 1909, Ruth Almén, “Okänd mästare [Unknown Master]”, in Egna vägar [Own Ways]‎[1], Åhlén & Åkerlunds förlag, accessed at Litteraturbanken.se, courtesy of Uppsala universitetsbibliotek, archived from the original on 6 September 2025, page 145:
      Munken [...] [läste ett] kapitel ur Augustini stora apologetiska arbete, »De civitate Dei».
      The monk read a chapter from Augustine's great apologetic work, De civitate Dei.
    • 1995, Yvonne Maria Werner, “Monsignore David Assarsson: katolsk präst och skån(ing) [Monsignor David Assarsson: A Catholic priest and a Scanian]”, in Signum[2], number 5, archived from the original on 6 September 2025:
      [Den katolska tidskriften] Credo hade [...] en utpräglat apologetisk karaktär.
      The Catholic magazine Credo had a distinctly apologetic character.

Declension

Inflection of apologetisk
Indefinite positive comparative superlative1
common singular apologetisk
neuter singular apologetiskt
plural apologetiska
masculine plural2 apologetiska
Definite positive comparative superlative
masculine singular3 apologetiska
all apologetiska

1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

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