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apostata

apostata is the obsolete form of apostate.

Meaning of apostate

Noun

apostate (plural apostates)

  1. (countable) A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
  2. One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
  3. (broadly) One who has renounced a political party, a cause, etc.
    • But the most politically damaging blow came from a late-breaking apostate: Mr. Clooney, who just weeks earlier had spent time with Mr. Biden and helped deliver $28 million to his campaign at a Los Angeles fund-raiser.2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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Forms of apostata

pluralapostatas

Questions about apostata

What is apostata the obsolete form of?
Apostata is the obsolete form of apostate.

Words near apostata in the dictionary

  1. apostasize
  2. apostasized
  3. apostasizes
  4. apostasizing
  5. apostasy
  6. apostata
  7. apostatas
  8. apostate
  9. apostates
  10. apostatic
  11. apostatical

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apostata (page history and authors); apostate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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