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Apostate vs Loafer - What's the difference?

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Apostate is a related term of loafer.


As nouns the difference between apostate and loafer

is that apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith while loafer is an idle person.

As an adjective apostate

is guilty of apostasy.

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) ----

    loafer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An idle person.
  • A shoe with no laces, resembling a moccasin.

    • Synonyms

    * (idle person ): bum, bumpkin, footler, idler, lout, yob, yobbo * (footwear ): penny loafer * See also

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