apostasy
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Examples include apostasy laws in some Muslim-majority countries and India’s anticonversion laws.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
Longstreet’s prominence made his apostasy an especially dangerous threat.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023
Still, I pressed on to see where the author was going with this horticultural apostasy.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2023
“There are about a dozen countries in the world where apostasy or blasphemy is, at least in theory, subject to the death penalty,” he said.
From Washington Times • Jan. 31, 2023
III opens with the story of the apostasy of the Northumbrian kings and the miseries of the “Hateful Year,” terminated by the victory of Oswald at Heavenfield in 634 a.d.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
Vocabulary lists containing apostasy
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The Testaments
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