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apostasy
/əˈpɔs.tə.si/
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What does apostasy mean?
noun
- The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
- Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
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On the other hand, he is highly indignant at the seducers whom he blames for the apostasy of the Galatians.
Its incurable disease was an apostasy from the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
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This was what he had got by apostasy, and his punishment was deserved.
If the annals of apostasy offer anything comparable to such a declaration as that, I can only say that the case in point is not producible from the stores of my reading.
They are like the two witnesses amidst the general apostasy, spoken of in the book of Revelations, who were the harbingers and forerunners of the millenium, the reign of universal virtue and peace.