Difference between Contrite and Apologetic

CONTRITE vs APOLOGETIC: NOUN

Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses
Feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent.
Arising from or expressing contrition.
Thoroughly bruised or broken.
Feeling regret for a fault or offence
Sincerely penitent or feeling regret or sorrow, especially for one’s own actions; apologetic.
Broken down with grief and penitence; deeply sorrowful for sin because it is displeasing to God; humbly and thoroughly penitent.

Offering or expressing apology
Offering or expressing an apology or excuse.
Self-deprecating; humble.
Serving as or containing a formal justification or defense.
Defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense, or by way of apology; regretfully excusing.
Having the character of apology; regretfully excusing

Bruised; worn.
Hence—2. Broken in spirit by a sense of guilt; conscience-stricken; humbled; penitent: as, a contrite sinner.
Synonyms Repentant, sorrowful. For comparison, see repentance.
To make humble or penitent.

Making apology or excuse; manifesting regret for or excusing some fault, failure, deficiency, imperfection, etc., in one's own conduct or that of another: as, an apologetic reply; an apologetic manner.
Of, pertaining to, or containing a defense; defending by words or arguments; said or written in defense: as, an apologetic essay.

Crestfallen, Forthright, Teary, Shamefaced, Tearful, Downcast, Sheepish, Regretful, Fallibilism, Rueful, Sorry, Penitent, Repentant, Apologetic, Remorseful

Polite, Unapologetic, Incredulous, Indignant, Sorry, Regretful, Sheepish, Remorseful, Repentant, Self deprecating, Justificative, Excusatory, Justificatory, Defensive, Contrite

Crestfallen, Forthright, Teary, Shamefaced, Tearful, Downcast, Sheepish, Regretful, Fallibilism, Rueful, Sorry, Penitent, Repentant, Apologetic, Remorseful

Polite, Unapologetic, Incredulous, Indignant, Sorry, Regretful, Sheepish, Remorseful, Repentant, Self deprecating, Justificative, Excusatory, Justificatory, Defensive, Contrite

Short but strong apologetic overview of the faith.
Prominent Catholic historians mostly offer a different apologetic.
Communicate with confidence instead of being overly apologetic.
The defendant who looked apologetic was found guilty.
After hearing nothing, Morris was concerned and apologetic.
Yet a philosophical apologetic underpins this significant article.
Those are some of the best apologetic arguments.
Sidenote: Apologetic character given to his great work.
At least she was really nice and apologetic.
Hank discusses the issue of origins, believing that it is not just an apologetic issue, it is the apologetic issue.