apostle
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Synonyms
advocate, advocator, backer, booster, champion, espouser, exponent, expounder, friend, gospeler (or gospeller), herald, hierophant, high priest, paladin, promoter, proponent, protagonist, supporter, true believer, tub-thumper, white knight
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adversary, antagonist, opponent
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The hero of Hui’s story, aptly, is an apostle of this view, the seventeenth-century French mathematician and mystic Blaise Pascal. — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, "The Art of Aphorism," 15 July 2019 Pause at Saints Peter and Paul’s Church to examine the 12 apostles who adorn its grand frontage. — Malavika Bhattacharya, National Geographic, "Why is everyone going to Krakow?," 23 July 2019 But the surprising, shocking feature of the descent into war is how passionately the apostles of destruction worshipped and welcomed it. — K.n.c., The Economist, "The radical politics of futurists and fascists—and us, here, today," 19 July 2019 In the apostle’s absence, his older brother, Pastor Benjamin Joaquin Garcia, gave the consecration. — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, "Anchorage’s ‘wedding cake church’ opens its doors after more than a decade of construction," 22 June 2019 Scalia, one of the early originalist apostles, wielded an array of historical and legal sources to find an individual right to bear arms in the amendment for the first time. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "When John Paul Stevens Eviscerated Antonin Scalia," 17 July 2019 So is the way casual, catty utterances of Jason and Mark are misinterpreted by apostles and transformed into dogma. — Jesse Green, New York Times, "Review: In ‘Mankind,’ Men Are Men and Women Are Extinct," 8 Jan. 2018 Noticeably absent from the inauguration was The Light of the World’s apostle and grandson of the church’s founder, Naason Joaquin Garcia. — Jeff Parrott, Anchorage Daily News, "Anchorage’s ‘wedding cake church’ opens its doors after more than a decade of construction," 22 June 2019 Among these are the remains of what may be the earliest known Christian church, and two frescoes recovered from its walls, blurry but remarkably intact, are thus among the oldest depictions of Christ and his apostles. — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, "‘The World Between Empires: Art and Identity in the Ancient Middle East’," 18 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'apostle.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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