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Apostate vs Itinerant - What's the difference?

apostate | itinerant | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between apostate and itinerant

is that apostate is guilty of apostasy while itinerant is habitually travelling from place to place.

As nouns the difference between apostate and itinerant

is that apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith while itinerant is one who travels from place to place.

apostate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Guilty of apostasy.
    • We must punish this apostate priest.
  • * Milton
    • So spake the apostate angel.
  • * Steele
    • A wretched and apostate state.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who has renounced a religion or faith.
  • (Roman Catholicism) One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession.

    • Related terms

    * apostasy * apostatical

    Synonyms

    * deconvert * recreant * withersake

    See also

    * heretic

    External links

    * (Apostasy) ----

    itinerant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Habitually travelling from place to place.
    • an itinerant preacher or peddler
  • * Blackstone
    • The king's own courts were then itinerant , being kept in the king's palace, and removing with his household in those royal progresses which he continually made.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who travels from place to place.
  • (Ireland) a member of the Travelling Community, whether settled or not.

    • External links

    * (wikipedia "itinerant")