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apostate
[ uh-pos-teyt, -tit ]
noun
- a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.
adjective
- of or characterized by apostasy.
apostate
/ -tɪt; əˈpɒsteɪt; ˌæpəˈstætɪkəl /
noun
- a person who abandons his religion, party, cause, etc
adjective
- guilty of apostasy
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Derived Forms
- apostatical, adjective
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Other Words From
- ap·o·stat·i·cal·ly [ap-, uh, -, stat, -ik-lee], adverb
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
“To the fundamentalist leadership of al-Qaida, Saddam represented the worst kind of ‘apostate’ regime,” they wrote.
However, [the scholars] are disputed over [the issue of] capturing apostate women.
This ever-so-slight heart-bleed for immigrant children branded him a party apostate, and he began to change course.
At first, he was sentenced to execution for being an apostate.
Godane rejects the idea of Al-Shabab negotiating with the Somali federal government, an “apostate government” he dubs it.
But the distrust which the old traitor and apostate inspired was not to be overcome.
Rather may it be said, they hate counterfeits and are indignant at the assumptions of apostate Christendom.
Going back still another hundred years we come to the times of the notorious apostate, Marcion.
The internal divisions, too, aggravate our weakness; and now, even Most has turned apostate.
He renounced Christianity and is known in history as Julian the Apostate.
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