Many considered Martin Luther to be an apostate when he first voiced his opinions against the Catholic Church, but he is celebrated today as the father of modern Protestantism.
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Apostate
//əˈpɔs.teɪt//
Synonyms for "apostate" (96 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
110 translations across 53 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- مُرْتَدّ adj (guilty of apostasy)
- مُرْتَدّ noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Armenian
1 entries- հավատուրաց noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- mürtəd noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Bashkir
1 entries- мөртәт noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Belarusian
4 entries- адсту́пнік noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- адсту́пніца noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- вераадсту́пнік noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- вераадсту́пніца noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Bengali
1 entries- মুরতাদ noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Bulgarian
2 entries- вероотстъ́пник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- вероотстъ́пница noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Catalan
1 entries- apòstata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 變節者 /变节者 noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Czech
2 entries- odpadlice noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- odpadlík noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Danish
1 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Dutch
2 entries- afvallig adj (guilty of apostasy)
- afvallige noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Estonian
1 entries- usutaganeja noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Finnish
2 entries- luopio noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- uskonluopio noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
French
2 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- apostate noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Galician
1 entries- apóstata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
German
4 entries- abtrünnig adj (guilty of apostasy)
- apostatisch adj (guilty of apostasy)
- Abgefallene noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- Abgefallener noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Greek
3 entries- αποστάτης noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- αποστάτισσα noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- αποστάτρια noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Hebrew
1 entries- מְשֻׁמָּד noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Hindi
2 entries- अन्यशाखक noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- पक्षहर noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Hungarian
2 entries- hitehagyott adj (guilty of apostasy)
- hitehagyott noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Icelandic
1 entries- trúníðingur noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Italian
1 entries- apostata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Japanese
1 entries- 背教者 noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Korean
1 entries- 배교자 noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Ladino
2 entries- meshumad noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- משומד noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Latin
2 entries- apostata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- apostātrīx noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Macedonian
4 entries- отпадник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- отпадничка noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- отстапник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- отстапничка noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Malay
1 entries- murtad noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Māori
1 entries- apotata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Northern Kurdish
1 entries- murted noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Old English
1 entries- apostata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Pashto
1 entries- مرتد noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Persian
1 entries- مرتد noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Polish
4 entries- apostatyczny adj (guilty of apostasy)
- apostata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- apostatka noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- odstępca noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Portuguese
1 entries- apóstata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Romanian
2 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- apostată noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Russian
4 entries- отсту́пнический adj (guilty of apostasy)
- апоста́т noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- апоста́тка noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- богоотсту́пник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Sanskrit
2 entries- अन्यशाखक noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- पक्षहर noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- òtpadnica noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- òtpadnīk noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- о̀тпадница noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- о̀тпаднӣк noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Slovak
2 entries- odpadlík noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- odpadlíčka noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Slovene
2 entries- odpadnica noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- odpadnik noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Spanish
1 entries- apóstata noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Swedish
2 entries- apostat noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- avfälling noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Tajik
2 entries- муртад noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- муртадд noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Tatar
1 entries- мөртәт noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Turkish
1 entries- mürtet noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Ukrainian
4 entries- боговідсту́пник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- боговідсту́пниця noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- відсту́пник noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
- відсту́пниця noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Urdu
1 entries- مُرْتَد noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Uyghur
1 entries- مۇرتەت noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Uzbek
1 entries- murtad noun (person who renounces a religion or faith)
Sample sentences
7 total sentences available.
Tom Jackson? He's an apostate.
Source: tatoeba (10676904)
We must punish this apostate priest.
Source: wiktionary
VVho can impair thee, mighty King, or bound / Thy Empire? eaſily the proud attempt / Of Spirits apoſtat and thir Counſels vaine / Thou haſt repeld, vvhile impiouſly they thought / Thee to diminiſh, and from thee vvithdravv / The number of thy vvorſhippers.
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