Definition of Apostasy

1. Noun. The state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes).

Exact synonyms: Defection, Renunciation
Generic synonyms: Rejection
Derivative terms: Defect

2. Noun. The act of abandoning a party for cause.
Exact synonyms: Tergiversation
Generic synonyms: Abandonment, Desertion, Forsaking
Derivative terms: Tergiversate

Definition of Apostasy

1. n. An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.

Definition of Apostasy

1. Noun. The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs. ¹

2. Noun. Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Apostasy

1. an abandonment of one's faith or principles [n -SIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostasy

aposiopesis
aposiopestic
aposiopetic
apositia
apositias
apositic
aposome
aposporic
apospories
aposporous
apospory
apostacies
apostacy
apostacys
apostasies
apostasy (current term)
apostate
apostates
apostatic
apostatical
apostatise
apostatised
apostatises
apostatising
apostatize
apostatized
apostatizes
apostatizing
apostaxis
apostemate

Literary usage of Apostasy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of the Church: A Cyclopedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1906)
"The penalty for apostasy from the faith is excommunication latae sententiae reserved ... In the strict sense apostasy from obedience is a schismatical and ..."

2. Jesus the Christ: A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy by James Edward Talmage (1916)
"THE LONG NIGHT OF apostasy. For over seventeen hundred years on the eastern hemisphere, and for more than fourteen centuries on the western, there appears ..."

3. The History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay, Hannah More Macaulay Trevelyan (1850)
"To apostasy, therefore, Perth and Melfort resorted with a certain audacious baseness which no English statesman could hope to emulate. ..."

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