To champion a cause
Definition
To make an apologia for something, a doctrine, or a person; to praise excessively, to defend systematically, or to seek justifications designed to rehabilitate a controversial cause. The technical meaning describes the discursive act of building a structured defensive argumentation, setting aside objective critical spirit to protect an ideology's validity.
Bilingual Equivalents
- To champion a cause
- To defend via apologia
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | First conjugation verb, functioning transitively with regular standard inflectional shifts. |
| Formation | Internal Romanian verbal compounding derived from the noun 'apologie' combined with the productive verbal suffix '-iza'. |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.po.lo.d͡ʒi.ˈza] |
| Source | Lexicon of Advanced Discursive Pragmatics, Morphosyntax, and Literary Criticism |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: Un analist onest nu trebuie să apologizeze greșelile evidente ale guvernului, ci să le prezinte cu deplină imparțialitate.
EN: An honest analyst must not apologize for the government's obvious mistakes, but present them with complete impartiality.
RO: Criticul a ales să apologizeze noul curent artistic în loc să realizeze o recenzie structurală neutră.
EN: The critic chose to apologize for the new artistic movement instead of carrying out a neutral structural review.
RO: El tinde să apologizeze orice acțiune a prietenilor săi, chiar și atunci când aceștia încalcă regulamentul stabilit.
EN: He tends to apologize for any action of his friends, even when they violate the established regulation.
Idioms & Phrases
A apologiza o doctrină / To apologize for a doctrine / to programmatic praise a system
RO: Acțiunea discursivă de a proteja și lăuda o ideologie politică sau religioasă prin eludarea neajunsurilor ei practice.
EN: The discursive act of protecting and praising a political or religious ideology by bypassing its practical shortcomings.
A apologiza în discurs / To speak in defense via apologia
RO: Manevră oratorică bazată pe introducerea de elemente laudative programatice în fața unui public sceptic.
EN: An oratorical maneuver based on introducing programmatic laudatory elements before a skeptical audience.
Tendința de a apologiza / Tendency to uncritical defense
RO: Înclinație psihologică sau ideologică a unui autor de a scuza erorile unui sistem datorită atașamentului partizan.
EN: A psychological or ideological inclination of an author to excuse a system's errors due to partisan attachment.
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