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