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
The revolt in Cagayan in 1718 finishes the mission, for its inhabitants apostatize and take to the mountain.
He certainly kept in the Church many Catholics who were ready to apostatize.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
But his wife and one of his daughters refused to apostatize with him.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
For example, "recreant, renouncing the faith, from the old French recroire, which again is from the mediaeval Latin recredere, to 'believe back,' or apostatize."
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.