apostatize

Example Sentences

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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

He was immediately cast into prison, and alternate threats and promises were employed to induce him to apostatize.

From Mary, Help of Christians And the Fourteen Saints Invoked as Holy Helpers: Instructions, Novenas and Prayers with Thoughts of the Saints for Every Day in the Year by Burke, John J. (John James)

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

From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent

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 Julian, George W.

The districts where Christianity had been so widely diffused remained tranquil, and the Christians in the cities where the mutineers were raging did not apostatize; but, unless they could conceal themselves, suffered with the whites. 

From Pioneers and Founders or, Recent Workers in the Mission field by Yonge, Charlotte Mary