Apostate: alternatives and connections

Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

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Not faithful; not observant of promises, vows, allegiance, or duty; violating trust or confidence; treacherous; perfidious; as, an unfaithful subject…

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One who quits.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

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To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity.

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

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Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.

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One faithless to principle or party.

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One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.