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Definition of Apostasies
1. apostasy [n] - See also: apostasy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostasies
Literary usage of Apostasies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Utah: 1540-1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates (1889)
"DURING the life-time of Joseph Smith there was but one organized secession from
the church, though, as we have seen, apostasies were frequent during his ..."
2. A critical and expository commentary on the book of Judges by Andrew Robert Fausset (1885)
"Gods epiphanies and Israel's apostasies and servitudes.—On four occasions the
Divine Angel appeared, and the Spirit of God followed qualifying the Judge for ..."
3. Hildreth's "Japan as it was and Is": A Handbook of Old Japan by Richard Hildreth, Ernest Wilson Clement (1907)
"... of the Fosse — apostasies—The Portuguese confined to Deshima — Rebellion of
Shimabara — The Portuguese excluded — Ambassadors put to Death — AD ..."
4. Early Methodism Within the Bounds of the Old Genesee Conference from 1788 to by George Peck (1860)
"apostasies are severe trials to the Church even now, in her strength; but how
much greater must the afflictions which she endured from such sources have ..."
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