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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
apostate /ˈapəsteɪt/

▶noun a person who renounces a belief or principle. ▶adjective having abandoned a belief or principle.

– derivatives
apostatical adjective.

– origin ME: from eccles. L. apostata, from Gk apostatēs ‘apostate, runaway slave’.

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