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Definition of "apostates" []

  • Plural form of apostate. (noun)

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Use "apostates" in a sentence
  • "The other maintained his proposition with indecent heat; and the dispute beginning to grow very serious, the company interposed, and gave judgment against their friend, who was so keenly reproached and rebuked for his impolite behaviour, that he retired in high dudgeon, threatening to relinquish their society, and branding them with the appellation apostates from the common cause."
  • "The slaughter of the apostates is what is here spoken of, not their eternal punishment. even unto the horse bridles -- of the avenging "armies of heaven." by the space of a thousand ... six hundred furlongs -- literally, "a thousand six hundred furlongs off" [W. Kelly]."
  • "The prohibition not to eat or drink in Beth-el was because all the people had become apostates from the true religion, and the reason he was not allowed to return the same way was lest he should be recognized by any whom he had seen in going."