The meaning of Apostasy

Apostasy – definition

noun
The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.
Usage examples:
The execution of their leader for apostasy brought widespread criticism
Synonims:
Renunciation of belief Abandonment of belief Recantation Treachery Perfidy Faithlessness Disloyalty Betrayal Defection Desertion Heresy Tergiversation Recreancy

noun
The act of giving up your religious or political beliefs and leaving a religion or a political party
Usage examples:
In those days apostasy was punishable by death.

Apostasy translation into English

Apostasy: translate from English into Chinese

叛教, 渝, 背教

Apostasy: translate from English into Dutch

Afvalligheid

Apostasy: translate from English into French

Apostasie

Apostasy: translate from English into German

Apostasie, Abtrünnigkeit

Apostasy: translate from English into Hindi

स्वधर्मत्याग, स्वधर्म त्याग, अपने सिद्धान्त या दल का त्याग

Apostasy: translate from English into Italian

Apostasia

Apostasy: translate from English into Korean

배교

Apostasy: translate from English into Russian

Отступничество, Вероотступничество, Ренегатство, Измена

Apostasy: translate from English into Spanish

Apostasía

Word origin

Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostasia, from a late Greek alteration of Greek apostasis ‘defection’.

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Apostasy – similar words

apostasies

noun
The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.
Usage examples:
The execution of their leader for apostasy brought widespread criticism

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Apostasy synonims

betrayal

noun
The action of betraying one's country, a group, or a person; treachery.
Usage examples:
The betrayal by the king by his daughter

noun
The act of not being loyal when other people believe you are loyal
Usage examples:
[ u ] i felt a sense of betrayal when my friends refused to lend me money.

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defection

noun
The desertion of one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one.
Usage examples:
The very public defections of four writers from the publishing house

noun
The act of leaving a country, political party, etc. to go to another one
Usage examples:
Over the years there were hundreds of defections to the west/defections from the east., recent chan…

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desertion

noun
The action of deserting a person, cause, or organization.
Usage examples:
I resented what i saw as my parents' desertion

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disloyalty

noun
The quality of not being loyal to a person, country, or organization; unfaithfulness.
Usage examples:
An accusation of disloyalty and betrayal

noun
The fact of not supporting someone that you should support
Usage examples:
She was accused of disloyalty to her party., her friend's disloyalty was hurtful.

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faithlessness

noun
The fact of not being sexually loyal to your marriage partner or usual sexual partner
Usage examples:
While he may have his faults, faithlessness isn't one of them., she is cast in the role of the bril…

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heresy

noun
Belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious (especially christian) doctrine.
Usage examples:
Huss was burned for heresy

noun
A belief opposed to the official belief of a church and that is considered wrong, or the condition of having such beliefs
Usage examples:
[ u ] fig. the concept of college athletes being paid to play sports was received as nothing short …

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perfidy

noun
The state of being deceitful and untrustworthy.
Usage examples:
It was an example of his perfidy

noun
Behaviour that is not loyal

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recantation

noun
A statement that one no longer holds a particular opinion or belief; a retraction.
Usage examples:
Every writer interprets galileo's recantation in a different way

noun
The act of announcing in public that your past beliefs or statements were wrong and that you no longer agree with them
Usage examples:
The hearing will focus on the reliability of the recantation., this is an almost complete recantati…

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tergiversation

noun
The act of making statements that are different from each other, so that they cannot both be true
Usage examples:
His tergiversations suggest a mind uncomfortable with either a western or an eastern identity.

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treachery

noun
Betrayal of trust.
Usage examples:
Many died because of his treachery

noun
Things that are done to deceive someone who trusts you
Usage examples:
A play about treachery and betrayal

All meanings and translations of Treachery

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