apostasyin a sentence
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Such an utterance is considered apostasy in the Republican Party.
apostasy = renouncing one's political party or other cause
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Are there governments that still punish apostasy with death?
apostasy = renouncing one's religion
- While heresy is rejection of specific doctrines, apostasy is rejection of an entire religion.
- The Priest's Tale: "The Man Who Cried God" "Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy," said Father Lenar Hoyt.† (source)
- 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)
- Cruelty was easier to forgive than apostasy.† (source)
- And the only punishment for apostasy was death.† (source)
- Do you remember at all what started off that little apostasy?† (source)
- I can almost forgive apostasy when I witness your skill.† (source)
- 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)
- There was the Egyptian cleric who engaged her in a prolonged discussion on the subject of apostasy.† (source)
- When the Republican press attacked Callender for his "apostasy, ingratitude, cowardice, lies, venality, and constitutional malignity," Callender struck back in the Recorder on September I, 1802, under the title "The President Again" : It is well known that the man whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps and for many years has kept, a concubine, one of his slaves.† (source)
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- I don't know if you remember, but I remember a time around here, buddy, when you were going through a little apostasy from the New Testament that could be heard for miles around.† (source)
- His [John Quincy's] apostasy is no longer a matter of doubt with anybody," cried Representative Gardenier of New York.† (source)
- Even Alvah Scarret was shocked by Carson's apostasy.† (source)
- Hus and Jerome, with the mitres of apostasy upon their heads, had flamed and fizzled at the stake.† (source)
- 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)
- This was what he had got by apostasy, and his punishment was deserved.† (source)
- 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)
- "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)
- Say, Goddess, what ensued when Raphael, The affable Arch-Angel, had forewarned Adam, by dire example, to beware Apostasy, by what befel in Heaven To those apostates; lest the like befall In Paradise to Adam or his race, Charged not to touch the interdicted tree, If they transgress, and slight that sole command, So easily obeyed amid the choice Of all tastes else to please their appetite, Though wandering.† (source)
- …"but I would have thee know that all these things I am doing are not in joke, but very much in earnest, for anything else would be a transgression of the ordinances of chivalry, which forbid us to tell any lie whatever under the penalties due to apostasy; and to do one thing instead of another is just the same as lying; so my knocks on the head must be real, solid, and valid, without anything sophisticated or fanciful about them, and it will be needful to leave me some lint to dress my…† (source)
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