Apology

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To offer an apology.

II. Apology ·noun Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

III. Apology ·noun Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.

IV. Apology ·noun An acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.