(n.) One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
(n.) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.
(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, apostasy; faithless to moral allegiance; renegade.
(v. i.) To apostatize.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ellen Mouravieff-Apostal was a social worker, a leader in the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) and with her husband Andrew the force that grew international social work.
(2) Isis is a Sunni extremist group that targets non-Sunnis as apostates, in some cases with sympathy or even the support of non-jihadi Sunni groups and leaders.
(3) They and other ideologues in the extremist movement saw this lack of unity – rather than the US, "hypocrite, apostate" regimes in the Middle East or the supposed lack of faith of other Muslims – as their biggest problem, at least in the short term.
(4) He is a former Republican Senator and Governor of Rhode Island who went apostate in the 2000s, the only Republican Senator to vote against Iraq War II, and he is pro-choice, pro-marriage equality, pro-gun control and pro-progressive taxation.
(5) He’s the one who has drawn radical protests at the mosque, been called an apostate, awarded a fatwah for backing same-sex marriage.
(6) The hearts of America and its allies were broken by the Islamic State when it cut off the rotten heads of some agents, spies, and apostates.” In recent months Isis extremists have killed a number of western journalists and aid workers , filming the act and posting it online.
(7) Most Afghans are Sunni, and Isis regards Shias as apostates.
(8) Writing about this at the time, Hossam Bahgat saw it as an attempt by the Mubarak regime to undercut Islamist opposition by portraying the state as the guardian of public virtue: “To counter this ascending [Islamist] power, the state resorts to sensational prosecutions, in which the regime steps in to protect Islam from evil apostates.
(9) The men, aged 25 to 40, are all labelled in the Isis propaganda video as murtad – meaning apostate in Arabic – and wear orange jumpsuits.
(10) It will be harder for Iran to blame the Saudis for “incubating” the Isis takfiri doctrine – sanctioning the killing of apostates – if its own Shia allies are behaving in a brutally sectarian way.
(11) The men are all labelled as murtad in the footage – meaning apostate in Arabic.
(12) National security adviser Michael Flynn has written : “I’m totally convinced that, without a proper sense of urgency, we will be eventually defeated, dominated, and very likely destroyed,” adding: “Do you want to be ruled by men who eagerly drink the blood of their dying enemies?” Flynn’s deputy, KT Macfarland argued that, without American leadership, global jihadism will “usher in its version of paradise – the destruction of the apostates and unbelievers and the triumph of the caliphate”.
(13) The intrusion of such sentiments at all levels has led to instances such as an imam in a mosque in the capital referring to Shia Muslims as apostates, or a national cricketer compelled to remove a photo of goddess Durga from his Facebook page after protests that he had offended Muslim sentiments.
(14) The difficult position of the heretic as a challenger to an entrenched orthodoxy is described, particularly the attempt of heretics to assert their allegiance to the discourse itself while the orthodoxy attempts to portray them as traitors or apostates.
(15) But Batten's document even goes so far as to say that anyone who "deviates from the path of this charter … would be regarded as an outcast from the religion of Islam" and that these apostates would be "denounced as a non-Muslim and find no protection in the Muslim community".
(16) How had such a reviled capitalist institution fallen into such an apostate land?
(17) But another fighter who appeared to be from a European country, judging from his accent in Arabic, described their aim “to liberate the land from the fifth of the apostates, the PKK and others”, referring to Kurdish secular fighters who are overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim as apostates.
(18) He can be sentenced as an apostate, and the same can be done to Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Taslima Nasreen [the Bangladeshi novelist under threat of decapitation who has just been offered refuge in Paris].
(19) Abdel Wahab also revived interest in the works of the 13th-century scholar Ibn Taymiyyah, who came to be seen as the mentor of the Salafi-jihadi world view, and the doctrine of takfir – permitting the killing of anyone deemed to be an apostate.
(20) The Isis statement on Twitter said the bomber had targeted a “temple of the apostates”.
Renegade
Definition:
(n.) One faithless to principle or party.
(n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
(n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
(n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
(2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
(3) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
(4) He discussed his early influences and rock’n’roll renegades, telling us what’s so great about the bands that he’s booked for his takeover of the ATP festival at Prestatyn in April.
(5) He can truly be held hostage by a handful of renegade conservatives in his caucus.
(6) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
(7) With renegade former Liberal MP Geoff Shaw now an independent, the major parties are locked at 43 MPs each, plus the Speaker.
(8) She’s such a renegade.’ “I couldn’t get the party people onboard until after the primary.
(9) Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels.
(10) There aren’t enough Trotskyists, entryists, devious Tories and random renegades to explain such an overwhelming victory.
(11) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Many suspect he seeks national power.
(12) Russell's career stuttered following the release of the cult 1980 drama Altered States, which starred William Hurt as a renegade scientist although he continued to direct, in film and on TV, throughout the 1980s and 90s.
(13) We’ll certainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it.
(14) A third Islamist, Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a renegade former Brotherhood member, is also running.
(15) Sana'a is now gripped by street battles and exchanges of shelling between Republican Guards led by Saleh's son and a division of renegade soldiers who have been backing the pro-democracy demonstrators.
(16) What western leaders celebrating their victory do not and cannot say is how many civilians died in the war – some estimates rise into the tens of thousands; what are the chances of establishing a genuinely democratic, inclusive government in Tripoli; whether rival political and tribal factions and Islamists may yet turn on each other; how, in such a scenario, Britain and other EU countries can prevent mass emigration from and through Libya into southern Europe; when, if ever, the renegade Gaddafi and his cronies will face the international criminal court; and most problematic of all, how the US, Britain and France square their robust intervention in Libya with their hands-off policy towards Syria, a strategically more important country where the lethal repression of civilians exceeds anything attempted by Gaddafi this year.
(17) Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
(18) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is one of the British voices urging the US not to be lured by the myth of a strong man.
(19) But Llew Smith was careful not to get expelled from Labour as 20 party veterans were (it's in the rules) for openly endorsing the renegade Law.
(20) Group-IB, which runs one of Russia's two official internet watchdogs, said the number of malicious .su websites doubled in 2011 and again in 2012, surpassing the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.