1. apostate - Noun
2. apostate - Adjective
3. apostate - Verb
4. apostate - Adjective Satellite
One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.
To apostatize.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is no greater anti-Semite that the Jewish one, and none hates the Jewish people more than the Jewish traitor and apostate. Meir Kahane
And as to you, Sir, treacherous in private friendship (for so you have been to me, and that in the day of danger) and a hypocrite in public life, the world will be puzzled to decide whether you are an apostate or an impostor; whether you have abandoned good principles, or whether you ever had any. Thomas Paine
When squint-eyed Slander plies the unhallow'd tongue, From poison'd maw when Treason weaves his line, And Muse apostate (infamy to song!) Grovels, low muttering, at Sedition's shrine. James Beattie
For socialists, of course, Mussolini's apostasy proves nothing except his supreme evil. For everyone else, though, Mussolini's origin story puts his subsequent career in a whole new light. Outsiders can easily see what insiders deny: The apostate fruit rarely falls far from the orthodox tree. Bryan Caplan
The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured. Elias Lyman Magoon
According to Maimonides, any Jew who rejects even one of these principles would be considered an apostate and a heretic. Source: Internet