Apostasy is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.
You can make 182 anagrams from letters in apostasy (aaopssty).
1350-1400; Middle English apostasye (Anglo-French) Late Latin apostasia Greek: a standing away, withdrawing, equivalent to apóstas(is) (apo- apo- + sta- Examples for apostasy
Just then it was, if we mistake not, that their apostasy began. And he averted his head from her, as though from a temptation to apostasy. Their commander purchased his life by apostasy and a treasonable oath. For another year I fought the dread of my apostasy being discovered. Also that hankering after an overt or practical effect seems to me an apostasy. No one is known to have been executed for apostasy in Sudan since 1991, when it was made a capital crime. So Peter tells us that the alternative is growth or apostasy. Khartoum says Meriam Ibrahim, a Christian, must hang for “apostasy.” Have a look at this telling research from Pew on blasphemy and apostasy laws around the world. It's for the crime of apostasy (in this case, writing a novel) that Ayatollah Khomenei sent death squads for Salman Rushdie.
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