All 4 Uses of
apostate
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Thus, beginning with the fifteenth century, where our story finds us, Paris had already outgrown the three concentric circles of walls which, from the time of Julian the Apostate, existed, so to speak, in germ in the Grand-Châtelet and the Petit-Châtelet.†
Chpt 1.3.2apostate = someone who abandoned their religion or separated from others with whom they used to share firmly held beliefs
- At the head of the Pont aux Changeurs, behind which one beheld the Seine foaming beneath the wheels of the Pont aux Meuniers, there was the Chalelet, no longer a Roman tower, as under Julian the Apostate, but a feudal tower of the thirteenth century, and of a stone so hard that the pickaxe could not break away so much as the thickness of the fist in a space of three hours; there was the rich square bell tower of SaintJacques de la Boucherie, with its angles all frothing with carvings, already admirable, although it was not finished in the fifteenth century.†
Chpt 1.3.2
- And you will not have the apostate!†
Chpt 2.11.1 *
- belong to the apostate!†
Chpt 2.11.1
Definition:
someone who abandoned their religion
or:
someone not faithful to a cause or a friend
or:
someone not faithful to a cause or a friend