ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Come-outer

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Come-outer is a noun meaning One who abandons or withdraws from an established religion, opinion, custom, creed, etc.

Meaning

One who abandons or withdraws from an established religion, opinion, custom, creed, etc.

More Meanings

  1. One who seeks radical political or religious reform.

Example Sentences

Despite her family's wishes, she left Christianity, becoming a come-outer of her former faith.
The passage of the Act for the Support of Literature and Religion raised, as the Congregationalists ought to have known it would, a violent protest from every dissenter and from every political come−outer.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apostate, come-outerism, heretic, renegade, come-outism, reversionist.

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