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- pronunciation:
pa
steIt
[or]
pa
stiht
- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, adjective), Word Parts
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noun |
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a person who abandons his or her religious faith, principles, cause, or the like.
The former priest was now an apostate who questioned the very existence of God.- synonyms:
- recanter, tergiversator
- similar words:
- betrayer, bolter, dissenter, renegade, renouncer, turncoat
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heretic |
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adjective |
| definition: |
characterized by or guilty of apostasy.
an apostate communist- synonyms:
- recreant, renegade
- antonyms:
- faithful, loyal
- similar words:
- dissident, faithless, unfaithful
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