Apostate
noun
A person who changes their religion or beliefs.
Because of his conversion to another religion, many regarded him as an apostate.
adjective
Related to abandoning a religion or belief.
His apostate views were considered controversial in his conservative society.
noun
A person who changes their religion or beliefs.
Because of his conversion to another religion, many regarded him as an apostate.
adjective
Related to abandoning a religion or belief.
His apostate views were considered controversial in his conservative society.
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Pro Tip 1/3Religious Connotation
Often used when someone abandons their religion, seen negatively by that religious community.
After converting to Buddhism, his family labeled him an apostate.
Pro Tip 2/3Secular Context
Can also refer to leaving non-religious beliefs, like political ideologies.
She was an apostate of the party's ideology after the scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of religious or cultural sensitivity when using, as it can offend.
Calling him an apostate in public led to social tensions.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Connotation
Often used when someone abandons their religion, seen negatively by that religious community.
After converting to Buddhism, his family labeled him an apostate.
Pro Tip 2/3Secular Context
Can also refer to leaving non-religious beliefs, like political ideologies.
She was an apostate of the party's ideology after the scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of religious or cultural sensitivity when using, as it can offend.
Calling him an apostate in public led to social tensions.
Pro Tip 1/3Religious Connotation
Often used when someone abandons their religion, seen negatively by that religious community.
After converting to Buddhism, his family labeled him an apostate.
Pro Tip 2/3Secular Context
Can also refer to leaving non-religious beliefs, like political ideologies.
She was an apostate of the party's ideology after the scandal.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware of religious or cultural sensitivity when using, as it can offend.
Calling him an apostate in public led to social tensions.
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and everyone else who abhors their behavior and ideology are sellouts or apostates. So if we want to prevent radicalization, we have to keep people going to the mosque.
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and everyone else who abhors their behavior and ideology are sellouts or apostates. So if we want to prevent radicalization, we have to keep people going to the mosque.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.
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Origen
Theologian
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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Andrew Rosenthal
American Journalist
It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
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Maajid Nawaz
British Activist
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.
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Donald Cargill
Scottish Clergyman
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
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Anthea Butler
American Educator
The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.
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Paula White
American Public Servant
I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.
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Peter Bergen
American Journalist
Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad belongs to the small Alawite sect and is therefore considered a heretic by many Sunnis; al-Assad runs a secular regime, and therefore he is considered by Sunni militants to be an apostate, and he is inflicting a total war on his Sunni population.
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Jakob Bohme
German Theologian
God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.
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Origen
Theologian
This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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Andrew Rosenthal
American Journalist
It's getting hard to keep up with all of the news from Washington - witch hunts, conspiracy theories and Republicans tearing each other apart over who is ideologically pure and who is apostate. It's a real set of carnival sideshows.
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Maajid Nawaz
British Activist
There were people who had sampled my voice from speeches when I was an Islamist and made them the chorus of pro-Islamist rap songs who then began talking about me as an apostate.
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Donald Cargill
Scottish Clergyman
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
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Anthea Butler
American Educator
The moment of true capitulation came when the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association quietly took Mormonism off the list of apostate religious groups.
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Paula White
American Public Servant
I have been called a heretic, an apostate, an adulterer, a charlatan and an addict.
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