A person who abandons religious faith or belief jointly with another person; someone who commits apostasy together with a companion.
From Latin co- (together) plus apostate (from Latin 'apostaticus', from Greek 'apostasia' meaning defection). This rare religious term marks the shared nature of religious abandonment.
During the Protestant Reformation and in times of religious upheaval, coapostates often traveled together for safety and support. Their shared rejection of faith made them outlaws, bonded by mutual heresy.
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