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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).
2. Noun. The act of abandoning a party for cause.
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
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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