apostatize
IPA: ʌpˈɔsteɪtaɪz
verb
- To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
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Examples of "apostatize" in Sentences
- What does it mean to 'apostatize' in the first place? "
- The upshot was that he advised Nathan not to apostatize too suddenly.
- To apostatize from Christ is to apostatize from the living God (Heb 2: 3).
- Catholic missionaries still continued to arrive, but eventually all were killed or forced to leave or to apostatize.
- The very name points at 'apostasy,' not so much that the devil was an apostate, as that this devil provoked and enticed people to apostatize:
- In these words Jacob binds himself never to apostatize from the pure worship of the One God; for there is no doubt that he here comprises the sum of piety.
- Some few poets were bought over; but, among men following the profession of the press, a change of politics is an infringement of the point of honor, and a man must FIGHT as well as apostatize.
- In Constantius 'days they almost all turned Arians, so that there were very few bishops that did not apostatize or betray the truth, even of the very men that had been in the Council of Nicaea.
- Their actions can give us some gauge: depending on whether they accept martyrdom or apostatize; build a monastery or molest little girls; become suicide bombers or found the Missionaries of Charity.
- Our Saviour had before taught how necessary it was for him that would apply himself to Christ and his religion, to weigh and consider things beforehand, how great and difficult things he must undergo, lest when he hath begun in the undertaking he faint and go back; he apostatize, and become unsavoury salt.
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