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Vinony

antapology

noun

  1. a reply to an apology, especially to a written defence or justification of religious opinions
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From ant- + apology.

  1. A response to an apology.

    “I am confident you will have no publike uſe of them, for they will not dare to give a panctual Anſwer to your Antapology. Our Independents in the countrey are bold and pragmatical; I do in this corner make what oppoſition I can, and am reſolved ſo to continue, what hard meaſure ſoever I meet withal.”

    “Each party dedicates their books unto the Synod, and printed apologies and antapologies, making complaints that the adverſe party did impute unto the Synod that which they never ſaid, and bringing teſtimonies of the Fathers to confirm their own opinion.”