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What is another word for apostatised?

Pronunciation: [ɐpˈɒstɐtˌa͡ɪzd] (IPA)

Apostatised is a term often used in religious contexts, referring to the act of abandoning or renouncing one's faith or beliefs. Some synonyms for apostatised include defected, turned away, betrayed, deserted, rebelled, and relinquished. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation, but all refer to the same basic action of rejecting a previously held belief system. Other possible synonyms include disavowed, repudiated, disowned, disclaimed, and abjured. Regardless of the wording used, the act of apostasy is often seen as a serious offense in religious communities and may result in expulsion or excommunication.
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A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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But, although we Loyalists were gagged and muzzled, though the Capitol was in the hands of the Whigs, and our vaunted levies of loyal recruits so many Falstaff's regiments for the most part, the faithful still kept intelligences with one another in the colony, and with our neighbours; and though we did not rise, and though we ran away, and though, in examination before committees, justices, and so forth, some of our frightened people gave themselves Republican airs, and vowed perdition to kings and nobles; yet we knew each other pretty well, and-according as the chances were more or less favourable to us, the master more or less hard-we concealed our colours, showed our colours, half showed our colours, or downright apostatised for the nonce, and cried, "Down with King George!"
"The Virginians"
William Makepeace Thackeray

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