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- Dictionaryapostasy/əˈpɒstəsi/
noun
- 1. the abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle: "the execution of their leader for apostasy brought widespread criticism"
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Apostasy is an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith, or abandonment of a previous loyalty. Learn the etymology, examples, synonyms, and related words of apostasy from Merriam-Webster dictionary.
The term apostasy is used by sociologists to mean the renunciation and criticism of, or opposition to, a person's former religion, in a technical sense, with no pejorative connotation.
Apostasy is the act of giving up your religious or political beliefs and leaving a religion or a political party. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and its translations in different languages.
Apostasy is the act of totally abandoning or rejecting one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc. Learn the origin, usage, and related words of apostasy from Dictionary.com.
When you abandon a set of beliefs, especially when they're religious beliefs, you can be accused of apostasy, which in some countries is actually illegal. It's taken seriously by many churches, since the rejection of a church's ideas can be seen as a criticism of the entire organization.
Apostasy is the abandonment or renunciation of one's religious faith, political party, principles, or cause. Find the origin, pronunciation, and translations of apostasy in various languages and dictionaries.
noun. /əˈpɒstəsi/ /əˈpɑːstəsi/ [uncountable] (formal) the act of rejecting your former religious or political beliefs. Apostasy was punishable by death under the country's strict religious laws. Definitions on the go. Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
