apostate

Related to apostate: Julian the Apostate

a·pos·tate

(ə-pŏs′tāt′, -tĭt)

One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs, from aphistanai, to revolt; see apostasy.]

a·pos′tate′ adj.

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apostate

(əˈpɒsteɪt; -tɪt)

a person who abandons his religion, party, cause, etc

adj

guilty of apostasy

apostatical, apostatic adj

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a•pos•tate

(əˈpɒs teɪt, -tɪt)

n.

1. a person who commits apostasy.

adj.

2. of or characterized by apostasy.

[1300–50; < Late Latin apostata < Greek apostátēs (see apostasy)]

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Noun	1.	apostate - a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc. deserter, ratter, turncoat, recreant, renegade quitter - a person who gives up too easily
Adj.	1.	apostate - not faithful to religion or party or cause unfaithful - not true to duty or obligation or promises; "an unfaithful lover"

apostate

noun

1. deserter, traitor, renegade, defector, heretic, turncoat, backslider, recreant (archaic) He was an early apostate, leaving the party last year.

adjective

1. disloyal, false, untrue, treacherous, unfaithful, heretical, faithless, backsliding, perfidious, traitorous, recreant the writings of apostate reformers like Luther

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apostate

noun

A person who has defected:

defector, deserter, recreant, renegade, runagate, tergiversator, turncoat.

Informal: rat.

Translations

odpadlík

Renegat

luopio

apostatapostate

apostata

отступник

apostate

[əˈpɒstɪt] N → apóstata mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

apostate

[əˈpɒsteɪt] (formal) n (= renegade, defector) → apostat(e) m/f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

apostate

n → Renegat(in) m(f), → Abtrünnige(r) mf; (Rel also) → Apostat m; he’s an apostate from the party → er ist ein Parteirenegat

adj → abtrünnig, abgefallen

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

apostate

[əˈpɒsteɪt] n (frm) → apostata m/f

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Ha-ha--I'm awfully glad you have made an apostate of me all the same!

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Thus, beginning with the fifteenth century, where our story finds us, Paris had already outgrown the three concentric circles of walls which, from the time of Julian the Apostate, existed, so to speak, in germ in the Grand-Châtelet and the Petit-Châtelet.

At the head of the Pont aux Changeurs, behind which one beheld the Seine foaming beneath the wheels of the Pont aux Meuniers, there was the Chalelet, no longer a Roman tower, as under Julian the Apostate, but a feudal tower of the thirteenth century, and of a stone so hard that the pickaxe could not break away so much as the thickness of the fist in a space of three hours; there was the rich square bell tower of Saint- Jacques de la Boucherie, with its angles all frothing with carvings, already admirable, although it was not finished in the fifteenth century.

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So spake th' Apostate Angel, though in pain, Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare: And him thus answer'd soon his bold Compeer.

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Also was he known as John the Apostate. He lived a long life and apostasized frequently.

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If you will interpret the word INTOLERANCE as FIRMNESS OF PRINCIPLE, if you do not wish to condemn in the catholic soul of the Abbe de Sponde the stoicism which Walter Scott has made you admire in the puritan soul of Jeanie Deans' father; if you are willing to recognize in the Roman Church the Potius mori quam foedari that you admire in republican tenets,--you will understand the sorrow of the Abbe de Sponde when he saw in his niece's salon the apostate priest, the renegade, the pervert, the heretic, that enemy of the Church, the guilty taker of the Constitutional oath.

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"We have again become pious"--so do those apostates confess; and some of them are still too pusillanimous thus to confess.

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He dwelt within the invincible wisdom of silence; he was protected by an indestructible faith that would last forever, that would withstand unshaken all the assaults--the loud execrations of apostates, and the secret weariness of its confessors!

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Ghoneim, an Egyptian fugitive harbored by Turkey, has described Essebsi as "apostate" who had been fighting against Allah (God) and Islam.

Insulting Essebsi, fugitive Ghoneim barred from entering Tunisia

'The High Court Judge has no power to declare them as apostate because we have a specific law under Selangor's enactment which is Section 61 of the Selangor Enactment Act - Administration of the Religion Islam.

Jais can probe Ahmadis as their ICs state they are Muslims, court told

If there was any cause to be upset at the thought of Notre Dame, it would be the fact that it is plastered with pagan symbols and stands as gigantic monument to false, apostate Christianity.

They wailed at Diana and they wail at fire

In any such case, the nationality of any dependent of the apostate who had acquired it upon the naturalisation of the apostate is also rendered void."

Kuwait conservatives threaten government

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