What is one who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate. He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession. Bunyan called?
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. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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