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apostasy

[uh-pos-tuh-see] / əˈpɒs tə si /


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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

Plainly, he had not expected to be accused of apostasy.

From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth

But the apostasies that appealed to more moderate voters made him a pariah to many within his own party.

From Washington Times Sep. 18, 2022

The group is willing to call out apostasies while also offering sufficient positive reinforcement to ensure that it keeps a seat at the table.

From Washington Post Feb. 12, 2018

Once we accept such dichotomies, we naturally look for the apostasies and hypocrisies of benighted people on the wrong side of the ethical or cognitive tracks but rarely for real understanding.

From Slate Nov. 17, 2015

These apostasies have left his old allies angry and confused.

From BusinessWeek Aug. 28, 2012

The Lord Advocate was that James Stewart who had been so often a Whig and so often a Jacobite that it is difficult to keep an account of his apostasies.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron




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