Definitions for apostate

apostate a·pos·tate

Spelling: [uh-pos-teyt, -tit]
IPA: /əˈpɒs teɪt, -tɪt/

Apostate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 232 anagrams from letters in apostate (aaeopstt).

Definitions for apostate

noun

  1. a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.

adjective

  1. of or characterized by apostasy.

Origin of apostate

1300-50; Middle English Late Latin apostata Greek apostátēs, equivalent to aposta- (see apostasy) + -tēs noun suffix

Examples for apostate

Because my passion so far has been exposing government-funded sacred cows and disrupting statist narratives, I am an apostate.

Godane rejects the idea of Al-Shabab negotiating with the Somali federal government, an “apostate government” he dubs it.

And yet does not the wife of Lot appear to have been punished as an apostate?

The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.

In an article entitled “In the words of the enemy,” it describes Obama as a “crusader, apostate.”

An apostate from the condition of a pravajita or religious mendicant.

At first, he was sentenced to execution for being an apostate.

To such depths of servility and degradation do apostate nations fall.

You ask, why do these men remain in a Church which they see to be apostate?

“To the fundamentalist leadership of al-Qaida, Saddam represented the worst kind of ‘apostate’ regime,” they wrote.

Word Value for apostate
Scrable

10

Words with friends

11

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