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   apostate

   /əˈpɒsteɪt/

   noun

   • 1. a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle: "after fifty years as an apostate he returned to the faith"

   adjective

   • 1. abandoning a religious or political belief or principle: "an apostate Roman Catholic"

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

   Derivatives

   • 1. apostatical adjective

   Scrabble Points: 10

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