apostatize

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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

Is this the man likely to apostatize from every principle that can bind him to the State—his birth, his property, his education, his character, and his children?

From Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell by Anonymous

Suppressing, at once, all the monasteries existing in the country, and giving their property to the nobles who were willing to apostatize.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.

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

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