What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Apostate vs Vagabond - What's the difference?

apostate | vagabond | Related terms |

Apostate is a related term of vagabond.


As adjectives the difference between apostate and vagabond

is that apostate is guilty of apostasy while vagabond is floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

As nouns the difference between apostate and vagabond

is that apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith while vagabond is a person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.

As a verb vagabond is

to roam, as a vagabond.

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) ----

    vagabond

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person on a trip of indeterminate destination and/or length of time.
  • One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a hobo.
  • * Bible, Genesis iv. 12
    • A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * person

    Related terms

    * extravagant

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To roam, as a vagabond

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • * Milton
    • To heaven their prayers / Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds / Blown vagabond or frustrate.
  • * 1959 , Jack London, The Star Rover
    • Truly, the worships of the Mystery wandered as did men, and between filchings and borrowings the gods had as vagabond a time of it as did we.
    ----