apostate
a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.
of or characterized by apostasy.
Origin of apostate
1Other words from apostate
- ap·o·stat·i·cal·ly [ap-uh-stat-ik-lee], /ˌæp əˈstæt ɪk li/, adverb
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How to use apostate in a sentence
Their peers may view them as American spies, traitors, and even apostates.
Afghan Interpreters Risked Their Lives to Help the U.S. We Must Not Abandon Them | Kim Staffieri and Matt Zeller | April 16, 2021 | TimeIt creates a general distrust of mental health professionals that we’re apostates because we’re working within the bounds of our professional ethics.
Mormon sex therapist faces discipline and possible expulsion from the LDS Church | Sarah Pulliam Bailey | April 16, 2021 | Washington PostBecause if there’s one place where there isn’t a clear difference between left and right, it’s how both sides feel about apostates.
Our Radicalized Republic | Maggie Koerth (maggie.koerth-baker@fivethirtyeight.com) | January 25, 2021 | FiveThirtyEight“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.
Arkansas’s Blue Collar Social Conservatives Don’t Know What’s Coming | Monica Potts | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAt first, he was sentenced to execution for being an apostate.
Wife of Jailed Saudi Blogger: My Husband Is a Victim of the Thought Police | Ensaf Haidar, Advancing Human Rights | October 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGodane rejects the idea of Al-Shabab negotiating with the Somali federal government, an “apostate government” he dubs it.
Ahmed Abdi Godane Is Al-Shabab's Osama bin Laden | Jamie Dettmer | September 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut the distrust which the old traitor and apostate inspired was not to be overcome.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington MacaulayRather may it be said, they hate counterfeits and are indignant at the assumptions of apostate Christendom.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardGoing back still another hundred years we come to the times of the notorious apostate, Marcion.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardThe internal divisions, too, aggravate our weakness; and now, even Most has turned apostate.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanHe renounced Christianity and is known in history as Julian the apostate.
British Dictionary definitions for apostate
/ (əˈpɒsteɪt, -tɪt) /
a person who abandons his religion, party, cause, etc
guilty of apostasy
Derived forms of apostate
- apostatical (ˌæpəˈstætɪkəl), adjective
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