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Word Meanings - TURNCOAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.

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  • DESERTER
    One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
  • TRAITOR
    L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to 1. One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers
  • TRAITORY
    Treachery. Chaucer.
  • APOSTATE
    One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a
  • TURNCOAT
    One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan.
  • HERETICATE
    To decide to be heresy or a heretic; to denounce as a heretic or heretical. Bp. Hall. And let no one be minded, on the score of my neoterism, to hereticate me. Fitzed. Hall.
  • VAGABONDAGE
    The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.
  • HERETIC
    One who having made a profession of Christian belief, deliberately and pertinaciously refuses to believe one or more of the articles of faith "determined by the authority of the universal church." Addis & Arnold. Syn. -- Heretic, Schismatic,
  • VAGABONDISM
    Vagabondage.
  • TRAITORLY
    Like a traitor; treacherous; traitorous. "Traitorly rascals." Shak.
  • VAGABONDIZE
    To play the vagabond; to wander about in idleness.
  • RENEGADE
    One faithless to principle or party. Specifically: An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith. James justly regarded these renegades as the most serviceable tools that he could employ. Macaulay. One who deserts from a military
  • TRAITOROUS
    1. Guilty of treason; treacherous; perfidious; faithless; as, a traitorous officer or subject. Shak. 2. Consisting in treason; partaking of treason; implying breach of allegiance; as, a traitorous scheme. -- Trai"tor*ous*ly, adv. -- Trai"tor*ous*ness,
  • TRAITORESS
    A traitress. Rom. of R.
  • HERETICALLY
    In an heretical manner.
  • VAGABONDRY
    Vagabondage.
  • BACKSLIDER
    One who backslides.
  • RECREANT
    to forsake, leave, tire, discourage, regard as conquered, LL. recredere se to declare one's self conquered in combat; hence, those are called recrediti or recreanti who are considered infamous; L. pref. re- again, back + credere to believe, to
  • BETRAYER
    One who, or that which, betrays.
  • VAGABOND
    1. Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. "Vagabond exile." Shak. 2. Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. To heaven their prayers Flew up, nor missed the way, by envious winds Blown vagabond
  • ARCHTRAITOR
    A chief or transcendent traitor. I. Watts.

 

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