APOSTATES Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

apostates

noun

plural of apostate

as in deserters

a person who abandons a cause or organization usually without right an apostate from communism, he later became one of its harshest critics

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as in traitors

one who betrays a trust or an allegiance became an apostate to liberalism after he had gotten wealthy

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Recent Examples of apostates Brown and O’Neill cast themselves less as Sandberg’s heirs than as her apostates. —

Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025 In Iran, Baha’is are considered to be apostates and face persecution, marked by extreme violence including extrajudicial killings, torture, and arbitrary detention. —

Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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And within his own country’s history, particularly, Dhont discovered the fates that met would-be deserters who were caught — brutal sentences often leading to death.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 12 May 2026
Harry Truman granted amnesty to certain World War II deserters, while Jimmy Carter granted pardons to hundreds of thousands of individuals who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.

— Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025