Formal disaffiliation from or abandonment or renunciation of a religion.
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Examples for "apostasy"
Examples for "apostasy"
1The interior cause of this apostasy will be explained in what follows.
2Twenty-first-century followers of Patrick are now facing a different kind of apostasy.
3The curse of religious and political apostasy lay heavy on the land.
4The angel's interpretation in this chapter does not leave the apostasy triumphant:
5Objection 1: It would seem that apostasy does not pertain to unbelief.
1It targeted a hotel frequented by the members of the apostate government.
2The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.
3This is the same old serpent, the dragon, the apostate, the leviathan.
4He was eating the fare of an apostate, of a despised Nazarene.
5Frings gored Henry in his columns with the rage of an apostate.
1When Constantine made Christianity the religion of Rome the apostatizing processes were greatly accelerated.
2Without openly apostatizing, they insisted on a measure of independence.
3Therefore we ought not to refuse allegiance to a sovereign on account of his apostatizing from the faith.
4Again, apostatizing persons are counted abhorrers of God (Zech 11:8).
5"Editing a Greek play, writing a political pamphlet, and apostatizing at the proper moment."
1The only European I have met with who visited Meccah without apostatising, is M. Bertolucci, Swedish Consul at Cairo.
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