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apostate

/uh-pos-teyt, -tit/US // əˈpɒs teɪt, -tɪt //UK // (əˈpɒsteɪt, -tɪt) //

异教徒,异教者,异教分子,异端

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or characterized by apostasy.

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Examples

  • Their peers may view them as American spies, traitors, and even apostates.

  • It creates a general distrust of mental health professionals that we’re apostates because we’re working within the bounds of our professional ethics.

  • Because if there’s one place where there isn’t a clear difference between left and right, it’s how both sides feel about apostates.

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

  • However, [the scholars] are disputed over [the issue of] capturing apostate women.

  • This ever-so-slight heart-bleed for immigrant children branded him a party apostate, and he began to change course.

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

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

  • But the distrust which the old traitor and apostate inspired was not to be overcome.

  • Rather may it be said, they hate counterfeits and are indignant at the assumptions of apostate Christendom.

  • Going back still another hundred years we come to the times of the notorious apostate, Marcion.

  • The internal divisions, too, aggravate our weakness; and now, even Most has turned apostate.

  • He renounced Christianity and is known in history as Julian the Apostate.