apostate
Meaning of apostate
- a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith
- abandoning a religious or political belief or principle.
an apostate Roman Catholic
Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs ‘deserter, runaway slave, apostate’.
Information about apostate
- The plural form of apostate is: apostates.
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CatalanHyphenation of apostate
apos-tate
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- apostate is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
apostate synonyms
Meaning deserter:
deserter, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter
Meaning a person who dissents:
Meaning a person believing in or practising religious heresy:
Meaning a person who does not conform to prevailing ideas or practices in their behaviour or views:
Meaning a person who has abandoned their country or cause in favour of an opposing one:
Meaning a person who betrays someone or something, such as a friend, cause, or principle:
Meaning (especially in the Christian Church) a person who promotes schism; an adherent of a schismatic group:
Meaning a person who refuses to submit to an authority or to comply with a regulation:
apostate antonyms
Meaning a person who supports and admires a particular person or set of ideas:
Meaning a personal follower of Christ during his life, especially one of the twelve Apostles:
Translation of apostate
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