apostate
noun
- a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle.
- Historians study the lives of apostates to understand religious conflict.
- The apostate wrote a memoir detailing his disillusionment.
- She became an apostate after questioning the core doctrines of the faith.
- He was labeled an apostate for abandoning the party's ideology.
- The apostate was shunned by his former community.
adjective
- characterizing someone who has abandoned a religious or political belief or allegiance.
- Her apostate views were controversial among her former allies.
- The apostate faction broke away from the main organization.
- The apostate priest faced excommunication from the church.
- He wrote an apostate critique of the regime's policies.
- The apostate leader was denounced by his former followers.