[əˈpɒsteɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle
(e.g: after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith)


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Origin:
Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs ‘deserter, runaway slave, apostate’

[əˈpɒsteɪt], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- abandoning a religious or political belief or principle
(e.g: an apostate Roman Catholic)


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Origin:
Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostata, from Greek apostatēs ‘deserter, runaway slave, apostate’