Apostate (noun)
a-pos-tayt
A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
Adjective: Abandoning a religious or political belief or principle. Taken from the ecclesiastical Latin apostata, which in turn derives from the from Greek apostatēs apostate, runaway slave.
Example sentences
“Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores.”
“It clearly would cover any incitement of hatred by the religious against its heretics, apostates, or members of other faiths.”
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