apostate
noun
adjective
Origin of apostate
Related Words for apostate
heretic, renegade, deserter, turncoat, nonconformist, defector, rat, recreant, dissenterExamples from the Web for apostate
Contemporary Examples of apostate
“To the fundamentalist leadership of al-Qaida, Saddam represented the worst kind of ‘apostate’ regime,” they wrote.
At first, he was sentenced to execution for being an apostate.
Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger: My Husband Is a Victim of the Thought PoliceEnsaf Haidar, Advancing Human Rights
October 20, 2014
Godane rejects the idea of Al-Shabab negotiating with the Somali federal government, an “apostate government” he dubs it.
In an article entitled “In the words of the enemy,” it describes Obama as a “crusader, apostate.”
Because my passion so far has been exposing government-funded sacred cows and disrupting statist narratives, I am an apostate.
Historical Examples of apostate
And yet does not the wife of Lot appear to have been punished as an apostate?
Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. IFrancis Augustus Cox
The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.
ImogenWilliam Godwin
An apostate from the condition of a pravajita or religious mendicant.
Hindu Law and JudicatureYjnavalkya
You ask, why do these men remain in a Church which they see to be apostate?
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the TiberJames Aitken Wylie
To such depths of servility and degradation do apostate nations fall.
Public School EducationMichael Mller