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/ɐpˈɒstəsi/
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NOUN
- the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
- the act of abandoning a party for cause
How To Use apostasy In A Sentence
- To say that such admonitions are a means to preserve those from apostasy who are by other means (as suppose the absolute decree of God, or the interposal of his irresistible power for their perseverance, or the like) in no possibility of apostatizing, is to say that washing is a means to make snow white, or the rearing up of a pillar in the air a means to keep the heavens from falling. The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
- At a period when all political ideology was imbued with religion, apostasy in any premodern state was a political crime. Times, Sunday Times
- In case it should appear that any have committed the irremissible blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, and the total apostasy from the illuminating convictive powers of the Christian religion, it should seem that they are not to be prayed for at all. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- Anyone seeking to leave the movement was declared an enemy of God and threatened with death for apostasy and desertion.
- It's not so much God versus Satan as a war between faith and doubt, between belief and apostasy.
- I do not accept the charge of apostasy, because I have never in my adult life affirmed any belief, and what one has not affirmed one cannot be said to have apostasized from.
- The apostle encourages the disciples (to whom he writes) in these dangerous times, in this hour of seducers; he encourages them in the assurance of their stability in this day of apostasy: But you have an unction from the Holy One, and you know all things. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- The OT has about 2 dozen death penalty crimes, disobedient children, apostasy, being a nonvirgin bride, etc.. Planet Atheism
- For this apostasy, these Western elites ostracized and criticized Birman, saying that his views were by definition biased because he was an emigre. Right From the Start
- This refrain must be one of the most lyrical expressions of political apostasy ever written.
