apostasy
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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
The instant I read the MLB’s arbitrator had ruled that Trevor Bauer should be reinstated, I braced myself for Bill Plaschke’s thundering denunciation of this apostasy.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2022
Root′y, abounding in roots: rank.—Root and branch, completely; Root of bitterness, a dangerous error drawing away to apostasy; Root of the matter, that which is essential.—Strike, or Take, root, to root, to become fixed.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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