apostasy
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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
Mace could’ve taken this opportunity to lean further into apostasy.
From Slate • Feb. 12, 2022
His apostasy did not prevent the spread throughout Europe and the Ottoman Empire of — well, let’s call it his sect, though in some ways Sabbatianism was a new religion.
From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022
Cyprian has drawn a very highly coloured picture of this general corruption, and of the apostasy it produced, in his treatise De Lapsis, a most interesting picture of the society of his time.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
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