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Adjective
/əˈpäsˌtāt/,/-tit/,
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apostates, plural;
  1. Abandoning a religious or political belief or principle

Noun
  1. A person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle

  1. deserter: a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
  2. not faithful to religion or party or cause
  3. Apostasy is the formal religious disaffiliation, abandonment, or renunciation of one's religion, especially if the motive is deemed unworthy. ...
  4. (Apostates (moth)) Apostates is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.
  5. A person who has renounced a religion or faith; Guilty of apostasy
  6. (APOSTATES) (1) Most commonly used to refer to people who leave the Mormon church. (2) Sometimes used as a reference to Christians. ...
  7. (apostates) Babur so-calls both Hasan and his followers, presumably because they followed their race sympathies, as of Rajput origin, and fought against co-religionists. Though Hasan's subjects,Meos, were nominally Muhammadans, it appears that they practised some Hindu customs. ...
  8. (apostates) Members who seriously oppose or ignore cardinal teachings of the Church, publicly or privately.
  9. One whose actions are not consistent with the standards of behavior set by his religious community.
  10. From the Greek apo - histanai ("depart from a stand.") A person who was once affiliated with a faith group, but has since "fallen away" and left the group. One group's apostate is generally another group's convert. ...
  11. (n/adj) - one who forsakes his religion or principles; renegade, traitor
  12. a person who renounces a belief or principle (verb: apostatize)
  13. One who is guilty of desertion of one's faith, religion, party, or principles
  14. A Mormon who no longer believes that Mormonism is true, especially one who expresses that conclusion. Many Mormons believe that members apostatize primarily because they are weak, they have sinned, they want to sin, or they never really had a testimony. ...
  15. The term used to describe one who leaves religious orders after making solemn profession. It is considered a serious crime in the eyes of the church, being not only a breach of faith with God but also with the founders and benefactors of their religious house.
  16. One who leaves his/her religion or renounces a particular religious or political belief.
  17. One who once professed Christianity but later permanently and totally turned away from the Christian faith and renounced it, turniing either to atheism or to some other faith.  The founder of the Afrikania Mission was an apostate from the Roman Catholic Church.
  18. One who possessed the Catholic faith and has rejected it entirely; also, one who apostasizes from Church obedience, or from the religious or clerical state.
  19. (172) one who has abandoned his belief, faith, cause, or principles.
  20. n. - & a. (person) committing apostasy. apostatize, v.i. change one's religious allegiance; forsake one's principles.
  21. The state in which the apostle is registered as a corporate sole
  22. An individual who has at one time been a member of the LDS Church but who has abandoned that Faith.
  23. Anyone former member who speaks against or is critical of the Jehovah's Witnesses.