Definitions for apostasies

apostasies a·pos·ta·sy

Spelling: [uh-pos-tuh-see]
IPA: /əˈpɒs tə si/

Apostasies is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 424 anagrams from letters in apostasies (aaeiopssst).

Definitions for apostasies

noun

  1. a total desertion of or departure from one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc.

Origin of apostasies

1350-1400; Middle English apostasye (Anglo-French) Late Latin apostasia Greek: a standing away, withdrawing, equivalent to apóstas(is) (apo- apo- + sta- Examples for apostasies

Just then it was, if we mistake not, that their apostasy began.

So Peter tells us that the alternative is growth or apostasy.

Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy.

Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world.

Khartoum says Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian, must hang for “apostasy.”

And he averted his head from her, as though from a temptation to apostasy.

For another year I fought the dread of my apostasy being discovered.

No one is known to have been executed for apostasy in Sudan since 1991, when it was made a capital crime.

It's for the crime of apostasy (in this case, writing a novel) that Ayatollah Khomenei sent death squads for Salman Rushdie.

Their commander purchased his life by apostasy and a treasonable oath.

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