apostatize

The conundrum is one that has nothing to do with Rodrigues’s decision whether to lay down his life, but with his reluctance to apostatize, even in the face of others’ deaths.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2017

Suppressing, at once, all the monasteries existing in the country, and giving their property to the nobles who were willing to apostatize.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thebaud

How could men apostatize from a cause which they had served with unflinching fidelity until it was completely triumphant?

From Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 by George W. Julian

He certainly kept in the Church many Catholics who were ready to apostatize.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

If, however, the eldest son consented to apostatize, the estate was settled upon him, the father from that hour became only a life-tenant, and lost all power of selling, mortgaging, or otherwise disposing of it.

From Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question by Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Vincent's next master was a Frenchman who had apostatized and was living as a Mohammedan on his farm in the mountains.

From Life of St. Vincent de Paul by F. A. (Frances Alice) Forbes

Professors of religion, at the same time, in large numbers openly apostatized and embraced infidelity.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in ?emblances.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Coke had died of old age; Cotton's heart was broken by oppression; Eliot had perished in the Tower; Wentworth had apostatized.

From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

"Father," said Ben with a sigh, "I know that many people here in Boston think I never had any religion; or, that if I had I have apostatized from it."

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Mason Locke Weems

Subsequently apostatizing from him and uniting with Mr. Jason W. Briggs, in forming the "Reorganized church."

From Succession in the Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by B. H. Roberts

What was the fountain of this people's corruption, and apostatizing from their professions?

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

It must not be supposed from the frequent quotations from Countess von Stachelberg's condemnations of German cruelties that she was an unpatriotic woman, repudiating, apostatizing from her own country.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston

The term apostate, or apostatizing, can have only an official meaning.

From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson

The first is the movement of the free-will towards God, and is an act of faith quickened by charity; and against this a man acts by apostatizing from the faith.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Thomas Aquinas