a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"
his move was less an apostasy from PASOK’s socialists, his former crowd, and more a sign of what was to follow once the second bailout demanded a grand coalition government.
the Bundesbank waiting in the wings to denounce Mario Draghi as an apostate
Some see Kaiser's cooperation with its union as a fool's errand; some view it as apostasy.
a set of "moral" codes that put sensuality on a taboo-lvel with defecation and apostasy
Because of her militant secularism and open apostasy as an ex-Muslim
not a single little smug psalm-singing baggy-skinned apostate
unless the premise—that there is such a thing as love, and it recurs—was false, so that apostasy was really a lapse into truth, like Galileo’s.
a friend of mine from Bible school, a fellow apostate, sent me an email with the title “robot evangelism.”
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the discipline's most lauded, yet apostate, progeny
I was called to a meeting with my leads in the food court of a shopping mall, where they screamed at me for my apostasy
While some may question my ability to speak from the evangelical perspective as an apostate, I would contend that I am an ideal representative of my generation of evangelicals