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

But his wife and one of his daughters refused to apostatize with him.

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

If ever he did apostatize, he was bound by a solemn promise to the Emperor of Morocco to turn Mussulman.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

By backsliding is meant the gradual turning back or away from God; to apostatize.

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

Anarchic Grandees have been kings over him; ambitious, contentious, unmanageable;—very fanatical too, and never persuaded that August's Apostasy was more than a sham one, not even when he made his Prince apostatize too.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas