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apostate Definition


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apostate
noun
    1. Someone who rejects a religion, belief, political affiliation, etc that they previously held.
      Thesaurus: heretic, traitor, recreant, renegade, tergiversator, defector, turncoat, deserter.
adj
    1. Relating to or involved in this kind of rejection.
Etymology: 14c: from apostasy.



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