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apostate Definition

apos·tate (-tāt′, -tit)

noun

a person guilty of apostasy; renegade

Etymology: ME apostate, apostata < OFr apostate & ML apostata < LL(Ec) apostata < Gr(Ec) apostates < Gr, deserter, rebel: see apostasy

adjective

guilty of apostasy

apostate Synonyms

apostate

n.

renegade, one of little faith, backslider, defector; see deserter, traitor.

apostate Usage Examples

Preposition: from

  • law: Paul's speeches show him to be a pious Israelite and no apostate from the Law.

Converse of object

  • execute: Addendum Maududi uses Sura 9:11-12 to justify executing apostates.
  • consider: They considered all sinners apostates, as well as all those who opposed them.

Adjective modifier

  • female: The female apostate is to be kept in confinement until she recant or death.
  • great: Hence those who were the followers of Peter and James anathematized him as the great apostate, and rejected his Epistles.

Modifies a noun

  • church: Gibson's church rejects these and other innovations, and views such progressive reforms as the work of an apostate church.
  • Christendom: Then proud and apostate Christendom will believe the lie and follow the beast with its lying wonders.
  • priest: It is amusing to think that people without knowledge of him may have taken him for an apostate priest transgressing the field of sketching.
  • people: This would be manifestly snapping the link that bound them to the apostate people.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The young king was influenced greatly by Jehoiada but after the priest's death Joash became apostate.