Sample Sentences for
apostasy
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    And the only punishment for apostasy was death.†  (source)
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    "Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy," said Father Lenar Hoyt.†  (source)
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    Cruelty was easier to forgive than apostasy.†  (source)
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    Do you remember at all what started off that little apostasy?†  (source)
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    I can almost forgive apostasy when I witness your skill.†  (source)
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    Hus and Jerome, with the mitres of apostasy upon their heads, had flamed and fizzled at the stake.†  (source)
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    Even Alvah Scarret was shocked by Carson's apostasy.†  (source)
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    Although they hurriedly called an official town meeting to pledge hypocritically their support to the President too, they stated publicly that John Quincy Adams, for his public association with Republican meetings and causes, should "have his head taken off for apostasy ...and should no longer be considered as having any communion with the party."†  (source)
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    And while Mrs. Anticol stayed pious, it was his idea of grand apostasy to drive to the reform synagogue on the high holidays and park his pink-eye nag among the luxurious, whirl-wired touring cars of the rich Jews who bared their heads inside as if they were attending a theater, a kind of abjectness in them that gave him grim entertainment to the end of his life.†  (source)
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    This was what he had got by apostasy, and his punishment was deserved.†  (source)
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    "It appears," said the baron, seating himself in the armchair opposite that occupied by Milady, and stretching out his legs carelessly upon the hearth, "it appears we have made a little apostasy!"†  (source)
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    He greatly regretted that "the indiscretion of a printer" had doubtless offended his "friend Mr. Adams, for whom, as one of the most honest and disinterested men alive, I have cordial esteem," despite "his apostasy to hereditary monarchy."†  (source)
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    Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.†  (source)
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