apostatize
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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
Now, as I said, it is insinuated that the goings out are many, answerable to the many ways which the children of men have invented to apostatize in from God.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan
But his wife and one of his daughters refused to apostatize with him.
From The Huguenots in France by Samuel Smiles
The revolt in Cagayan in 1718 finishes the mission, for its inhabitants apostatize and take to the mountain.
They will see to it also that conversion shall go on without intimidation, and without danger that through threats of punishment any of those already converted should relapse or apostatize.
In what spirit the State regarded its relations with the Holy Office was exhibited in 1356, when Frà Michele da Pisa, the Inquisitor of Treviso, imprisoned some Jewish converts who had apostatized.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Henry Charles Lea
"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
It was a dark hour around the Prophet in Kirtland, many having apostatized, and some of them prominent Elders, when Brother Kimball and some others were called upon to take a mission to England.
From Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission by Orson F. Whitney
‘Oh! dear father,’ she would say, ‘I have dreadfully apostatized from Christ.’
From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 by Various
The first is the view of some of the Manichean teachers, that spirits were embodied by a hostile violence and cunning, the force and fraud of the apostatized Devil.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
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
Every opportunity was given for apostatizing and for escaping death.
From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley
Let us just see, in reference not to mere words, but to things, what can be truly meant by the terms ‘apostate or apostatizing Government,’ as applied to the Government of Great Britain.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
The term apostate, or apostatizing, can have only an official meaning.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by John Davidson
