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

It is well known that for many years past, it is hither that the Christians who have refused to apostatize, have been exiled from all the provinces of China. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis

The angel of the church in Smyrna is supposed to have been Polycarp, who, rather than to apostatize, was burnt alive in that city about A. D. 166.

From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester

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

From The Huguenots in France by Smiles, Samuel

This edict of 1616 differed from that issued by Ieyasu in 1614, since the latter did not explicitly prescribe the death-penalty for converts refusing to apostatize.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)