Crossword-Solution: APOSTATE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Apostate | n. | 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. |
| Apostate | n. | One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. |
| Apostate | a. | Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade. |
| Apostate | v. i. | To apostatize. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| APOSTATE | anagram | POSTATEA |
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Sentences with APOSTATE (5)
When he surveyed the volumes on his shelves—few of which had been opened since Elfride first took possession of his heart—their untouched and orderly arrangement reproached him as an apostate from the old faith of his youth and early manhood.
But even in his fear the apostate Presbyterian was unrelenting, unpityingly harsh; he published in his manifesto no promise of pardon, no inducement to submission.
Then stood up my Lord Willbewill, who was the governor of the town, (this Willbewill was that apostate of whom mention was made before,) and the keeper of the gates of Mansoul.
The intervention of the Emperor, and a papal ban from Rome, which anathematized the elector as an apostate, and deprived him of all his dignities, temporal and spiritual, armed his own subjects and chapter against him.
The same autumn that King Olaf came to England, it happened that King Svein died suddenly in the night in his bed; and it is said by Englishmen that Edmund the Saint killed him, in the same way that the holy Mercurius had killed the apostate Julian.
Quotes with APOSTATE (3)
That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.
Centuries have passed since the wars of religion ceased in Europe, and since men stopped dying in large numbers because of arcane theological disputes. Hence, perhaps, the incredulity and denial with which Westerners have greeted news of the theology and practices of the Islamic State. Many refuse to believe that this group is as devout as it claims to be, or as backward-looking or apocalyptic as its actions and statements suggest." Their skepticism is comprehensible. In the …
Wrong. This was wrong. A list of words raced through his head. Apostate, heretic, pagan. Witch.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1971–2020).