apostasy
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Longstreet’s prominence made his apostasy an especially dangerous threat.
From Slate • Nov. 20, 2023
Among them is Lin Pao Rafetta, who is part of the Argentine Coalition for a Secular State, which has led the 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
The flip side of apostasy, of course, is the enmity it earns you from your old comrades.
From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2022
III opens with the story of the apostasy of the Northumbrian kings and the miseries of the “Hateful Year,” terminated by the victory of Oswald at Heavenfield in 634 a.d.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
Vocabulary lists containing apostasy
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The Testaments
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