About The Word Apostate
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Apostate
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What's The Definition Of Apostate?
[n] a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
[adj] not faithful to religion or party or cause Synonyms | Synonyms for Apostate: deserter | ratter | recreant | renegade | unfaithful Related Terms | Find terms related to Apostate: atheist | atheistic | backslider | backsliding | blasphemer | blasphemous | bolter | collaborationist | collaborative | collaborator | convert | defector | degenerate | demurrer | deserter | disloyal | dissenter | dissentient | dissident | faithless | fallen | fallen from grace | fifth columnist | impious | irreligious | irreverent | lapsed | mugwump | nonconformist | objector | opinionist | opposition voice | profanatory | profane | proselyte | protestant | protester | quisling | rat | recidivist | recidivistic | recreant | recusant | renegade | renegado | renegate | reversionist | runagate | Sabbath-breaker | sacrilegious | sacrilegist | schismatic | seceder | secessionist | sectarian | sectary | separatist | strikebreaker | tergiversant | tergiversating | tergiversator | traitor | traitorous | treasonable | treasonous | turnabout | turncoat | turntail | unbeliever | undutiful See Also | quitter Apostate In Webster's Dictionary \A*pos"tate\, n. [L. apostata, Gr. ?, fr. ?. See
{Apostasy}.]
1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to
which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his
religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
2. (R. C. Ch.) One who, after having received sacred orders,
renounces his clerical profession.
\A*pos"tate\, a. Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. So spake the apostate angel. --Milton. A wretched and apostate state. --Steele. \A*pos"tate\, v. i. [L. apostatare.] To apostatize. [Obs.] We are not of them which apostate from Christ. --Bp. Hall. |
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