Perfidious vs Apostateapostate - What's the difference?
perfidious | apostateapostate |
Apostateapostate has no English definition.
Of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
*:TRINCULO (speaking about ): By this light, a most perfidious and drunken / monster: when his god's asleep, he'll rob his bottle.
* 1851 , , Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome (ed. William C. Taylor), ch. 26:
* 1905 , , John Knox and the Reformation , ch. 14:
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Apostateapostate is likely misspelled.
Apostateapostate has no English definition.
As an adjective perfidious
is of, pertaining to, or representing perfidy; disloyal to what should command one's fidelity or allegiance.perfidious
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The perfidious Ricimer soon became dissatisfied with Anthe'mius, and raised the standard of revolt.
- [S]he knew Huntly for the ambitious traitor he was, a man peculiarly perfidious and self-seeking.
Art: The Velocipede of Modernism," Time :
- When the Nazis branded Feininger a "degenerate artist" in 1937, he left 54 paintings for safekeeping with a Bauhaus friend named Hermann Klumpp. After the war, and for the rest of Feininger's life, the perfidious Klumpp refused to give them back.