Synonym: defection, renunciation, tergiversation. Similar words: homeostasis, metastasis, fantasy, juxtapose, just as, gestapo, poster, cast aside. Meaning: [ə'pɒstəsɪ] 
n. 1. the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) 2. the act of abandoning a party or cause.
n. 1. the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes) 2. the act of abandoning a party or cause. 
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1. In those days apostasy was punishable by death.
2. His apostasy was repulsive to the Xerox people.
3. His apostasy had cost him his empire.
4. How, then, do we fight against doctrinal apostasy?
5. Apostasy often has its roots in moral failure.
6. He was looked down upon for apostasy.
7. But, in chapter 3, when we have moral apostasy, what shall we do?
8. Iran - Since the country believes apostasy is a crime, pray specifically for Muslims who convert to Christianity as they potentially face the death penalty.
9. If you have a moral apostasy, yet the minister is not doing his work, to which book are you going to turn?
10. But many left-wing friends never forgave his apostasy, doubtless reinforcing his inclination to keep the outside world at a safe distance.
11. For apostasy from God and His law cannot be the key to wisdom.
12. It is a story of faithfulness amid apostasy and persecution.
13. And yet, ultimately, such apostasy leaves me unsatisfied as well.
14. At its sternest, Islamic law prescribes the death penalty for anybody who commits “apostasy”—or abandons the faith.
15. They include theft, adultery and fornication, wine drinking, highway banditry, apostasy to of the faith and rebellion.
16. For many of America's investors, Immelt's confession is an apostasy.
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17. But liberty is abused in an equally insidious way when accusers conflate apostasy with heresy—by alleging that somebody claiming to be a Muslim has erred by advancing false interpretations.
18. While most of their fellow Hebrews were already knee-deep in compromise and apostasy, these Hebrew boys stood firm and would not compromise.
19. One of the new pope's primary areas of concern is likely to be what is called Europe's silent apostasy, the sharp decline in Catholic Church attendance and religious observance.
20. It is also generally thought that he created the Warp storm known as the Storm of the Emperor's Wrath during the Age of Apostasy .
21. The nominal conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great to Christianity indeed led to compromise and apostasy .
22. In chapter 2, if and when we have doctrinal apostasy, we must know the truth and proclaim it in meekness and in power.
More similar words: homeostasis, metastasis, fantasy, juxtapose, just as, gestapo, poster, cast aside, postpone, posting, postman, posture, post-war, postcard, posterity, post mortem, postmodern, postmortem, post-mortem, postponement, ex post facto, hostage, preposterous, nostalgia, first and foremost, as yet, easy, uneasy, asylum, kapo.