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121apostate — I. n. Renegade, backslider, deserter, turncoat, pervert. II. a. Treacherous, perfidious, traitorous, disloyal, false, faithless, untrue, recreant, backsliding …
122recreant — I. a. 1. Cowardly, dastardly, base, craven, pusillanimous, mean spirited, faint hearted, yielding. 2. Apostate, treacherous, false, unfaithful, faithless, untrue, backsliding. II. n. 1. Coward, dastard. 2. Apostate, renegade, backslider …
123backslide — verb (I) to start doing the bad things that you used to do, especially after having improved your behaviour: I haven t had a cigarette for two months, but recently I m afraid I ve begun to backslide. backslider noun (C) …
124apostate — n *renegade, turncoat, recreant, backslider Analogous words: deserter, forsaker, abandoner (see corresponding verbs at ABANDON): *heretic, schismatic, dissenter, nonconformist Contrasted words: *convert, proselyte …
125convert — vb *transform, metamorphose, transmute, transmogrify, transfigure Analogous words: manufacture, fabricate, forge, *make: apply, utilize, employ, *use convert n Convert, proselyte are synonyms only in being applicable to the same person. Both… …
126recreant — n *renegade, apostate, turncoat, backslider Analogous words: treacherousness or treachery, perfidiousness or perfidy, traitorousness (see corresponding adjectives at FAITHLESS) …
127turncoat — *renegade, apostate, recreant, backslider Analogous words: deserter, forsaker, abandoner (see corresponding verbs at ABANDON) …
128absentee — n deserter, truant, fugitive, exile, renegade, runaway; shirker, slacker, skulker, malingerer, quitter, backslider …
