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[ uh-pos-teyt, -tit ] / əˈpɒs teɪt, -tɪt / SEE SYNONYMS FOR apostate ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc. adjectiveof or characterized by apostasy. Origin of apostate1300–50; Middle English <Late Latin apostata<Greek apostátēs, equivalent to aposta- (see apostasy) + -tēs noun suffix OTHER WORDS FROM apostateap·o·stat·i·cal·ly [ap-uh-stat-ik-lee], /ˌæp əˈstæt ɪk li/, adverbWords nearby apostateaposematic, aposematic coloration, aposiopesis, apospory, apostasy, apostate, apostatize, apostaxis, a posteriori, aposthia, apostil Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for apostate“To the fundamentalist leadership of al-Qaida, Saddam represented the worst kind of ‘apostate’ regime,” they wrote. Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Dec. 14|PunditFact.com|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST At 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|DAILY BEAST Godane 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|DAILY BEAST In an article entitled “In the words of the enemy,” it describes Obama as a “crusader, apostate.” It'll Take More Than Bombs to Stop ISIS|Dean Obeidallah|September 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Because my passion so far has been exposing government-funded sacred cows and disrupting statist narratives, I am an apostate. James O’Keefe in Defense of Taping Mitch McConnell, and Everyone Else|James O'Keefe|April 15, 2013|DAILY BEAST During the late reign Johnson had published a book entitled Julian the Apostate. The History of England from the Accession of James II.|Thomas Babington Macaulay At Rosedale an apostate Isabella Dayvill was sent back to do penance in 1321. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535|Eileen Edna Power If not by Iamblichus, this work issued certainly from his school, to which Julian the Apostate belonged. Giordano Bruno|James Lewis McIntyre Now, you mustn't think, from all this, that I am an apostate from the principle of Women's Rights. Beauty and The Beast, and Tales From Home|Bayard Taylor Even a charlatan can be good alone; an apostate can be wise alone; a fool can be pious alone. The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century|Leo Wiener
British Dictionary definitions for apostate
nouna person who abandons his religion, party, cause, etc Derived forms of apostateapostatical (ˌæpəˈstætɪkəl), adjectiveCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to apostateheretic, renegade, deserter, turncoat, nonconformist, defector, rat, recreant, dissenter, backslider |