apostasizev.
/əˈpɒstəsʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈpɑstəˌsaɪz/ intransitive. To abandon or renounce a religion or religious belief; to move from one faith to another; to become an apostate. In extended use: to abandon a political principle or party. Cf. apostatize v.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > be or become apostate [verb (intransitive)]
renayc1300
to go backward1382
to fall awayc1384
to stand behindc1475
to turn (one's) tippet1546
relapse1563
backslide1581
apostate1596
apostatize1611
renegade1611
apostasize1696
renegado1731
renege1744
the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > reverse or abandon one's purpose [verb (intransitive)] > desert one's party or principles
declinec1374
starta1450
revert?a1525
to fall away1535
to turn (one's) tippet1546
revolt1549
shrink1553
to turn one's coat1565
to come over1576
apostate1596
to change (one's) sides1596
defect1596
renegade1611
to change foot1618
to run over1643
to face about1645
apostatize1648
tergiverse1675
tergiversate1678
desert1689
apostasize1696
renegado1731
rat1810
to cross the floor1822
turncoat1892
to take (the) soup1907
turn1977
1696 Char. Jacobite in Char. Beaux 36 King James was uncapable of Ruling in a Protestant Realm, having apostasiz'd to Popery.
1850 Reasoner 10 July 167 A woman who had apostasised [1839 apostatised] from the religion of Islam, was, by sentence of the ecclesiastical court of Cairo, disinherited of her husband's property.
1895 Ipswich Jrnl. 22 June 4/6 The majority of the Liberal Party apostasised in the short space of a few months.
1988 National Rev. (U.S.) 30 Dec. 51/1 The most magnificent moments of the book come when..he defends his religion, refusing to apostasize.
2014 K. C. Hanson tr. H. Gunkel Elijah, Yahweh, & Baal iv. 58 The men..thought not that Ahab had worshipped Yahweh along with Baal, but that he had apostasized from Yahweh.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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