apostatize
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Verb
[edit]apostatize (third-person singular simple present apostatizes, present participle apostatizing, simple past and past participle apostatized)
- To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
- 1849, “Discipline of the Church.”, in A Catechism on the Government and Discipline of the Presbyterian Church[1] (Theology), Presbyterian Board of Publication, →OCLC, page 31:
- Q. 15. May not a church so far apostatize by the neglect of discipline, as to cease to be a church of Christ, and become a synagogue of Satan?
A. Yes. This has sometimes happened.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- Soft enticements of domestic life too often draw him from the ascetic trail; a monk who apostatizes to the world at times.
Synonyms
[edit]- commit apostasy, apostasize
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[edit]give up one's position or belief
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