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Expatriate vs Apostate - What's the difference?

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Expatriate is a related term of apostate.


As adjectives the difference between expatriate and apostate

is that expatriate is of, or relating to, people who are expatriates while apostate is guilty of apostasy.

As nouns the difference between expatriate and apostate

is that expatriate is one who lives outside one’s own country while apostate is a person who has renounced a religion or faith.

As a verb expatriate

is to banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.

expatriate

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, or relating to, people who are expatriates.
  • * an expatriate mailing list
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who lives outside one’s own country.
  • One who has been banished from one’s own country.
  • Synonyms

    * * outland

    Derived terms

    * expat * rex-pat, rex-patriate

    See also

    * immigrant * emigrant

    Verb

    (expatriat)
  • To banish; to drive or force (a person) from his own country; to make an exile of.
  • To withdraw from one’s native country.
  • To renounce the rights and liabilities of citizenship where one is born and become a citizen of another country.
  • 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.
  • Synonyms

    * deconvert * recreant * withersake

    See also

    * heretic