apostatize
Example Sentences
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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
He had made Phocyas apostatize from his religion; after which the abhorrence of Eudocia would have been reasonable, his misery would have been just, and the horrours of his repentance exemplary.
From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
But his wife and one of his daughters refused to apostatize with him.
From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel
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
They will see to it also that conversion shall go on without intimidation, and without danger that through threats of punishment any of those already converted should relapse or apostatize.
