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Another word for apostate

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Noun

  1. A person who has defected

    See also:

    approach

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Another word for apostate

Noun
  1. See also:

    traitor

    deserter

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Sentence Examples

  • As soon as Lacey left her childhood home, she became an apostate.

  • At Modin, Mattathias, an aged priest, not only refused to offer the first sacrifice, but slew an apostate Jew who was about to step into the breach.

  • Philip became an apostate after his wife died of cancer.

  • Accordingly he was received into the church by one Berry, himself an apostate, and entered the Jesuit College of Valladolid as Brother Ambrose.

  • About this time, according to N6ldeke, an anonymous Edessene wrote the Romance of Julian the Apostate, which so many Arab writers use as a history.

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