Usually means: Renouncer of religious or political belief.
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  1. apostate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apostate, the Apostate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apostate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apostate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apostate: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apostate, apostate: Wordnik
  7. apostate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apostate: Wiktionary
  9. apostate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apostate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apostate: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Apostate, apostate, the apostate: Dictionary.com
  13. apostate: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Apostate (disambiguation), Apostate, The Apostate (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Apostate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. apostate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. apostate: Rhymezone
  18. Apostate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. apostate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. apostate: Free Dictionary
  21. apostate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. apostate: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. apostate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Apostate: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. APOSTATE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

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  1. apostate: Legal dictionary

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  1. apostate: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. apostate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See apostates as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Guilty of apostasy.
noun:  A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
noun:  (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
noun:  (by extension) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.

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