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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

He is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State that is leading an apostasy movement.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 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

They also carried with them letters of safe-conduct from the emperor Sigismund and other princes, and they professed that they were engaged on a pilgrimage of expiation for some act of apostasy.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" by Various

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

That thought has such strange and diabolical depths that in it lies the reason of some of those apostasies which have, at times, amazed the world and horrified it.

From The Lesser Bourgeoisie by Honoré de Balzac




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