单词 | apostasy |
释义 | apostasyn. 1. a. Abandonment or renunciation of one's religious faith or moral allegiance. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > apostasy > [noun] renoirie1340 apostasyc1380 recidivationa1425 perversiona1450 pervertinga1450 relapsec1475 resiluation1513 departing1526 residuationa1535 back-starting1535 backsliding1554 abrenunciation1557 recreant1570 backslide1586 relapsing1591 recreantness1611 apostating1648 recadency1648 apostatizing1659 lapse1660 apostatism1814 renegadism1823 the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of allegiance departing1526 defection1542 secession1601 apostasy1855 c1380 J. Wyclif De Eccles. in Wks. (1871) III. 438 Apostasye þat goiþ evene aȝen þe ordre of Crist. 1395 J. Purvey Remonstr. (1851) 24 Apostasie, either goinge abak fro cristene feith. 1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) ii. 194 They felle..in apostasye by ydolatrye, from the worshypynge of very god. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 43 Raphael..had forewarn'd Adam by dire example to beware Apostasie . View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 85 The Canon Law defines Apostacy to be a rash and wilful Departure from that State of Faith, Obedience or Religion, which any Person has profess'd himself to hold in the Christian Church. 1855 C. M. Yonge Cameos xxxii, in Monthly Packet Feb. 94 The rest had the choice of death or apostacy. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §6. 655 The most devoted loyalists began to murmur, when James demanded apostasy as a proof of their loyalty. b. Roman Catholic Church. The action of quitting a religious order or renouncing vows without legal dispensation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrilege > clerical misbehaviour > [noun] > leaving religious order without dispensation apostasy1532 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 793/2 That freres may..breake their vowes, & runne in apostasy. 1877 E. Dowden Shakspere (Macmillan Lit. Primers) vi. 64 To charge with error their original vows of seclusion and to justify their present apostasy. 2. By extension: The abandonment of principles or party generally. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles recreandisea1425 declining1526 declination1533 back-turning1535 defect1540 revoltc1576 falling off1577 apostasy1578 tergiversation1583 declension1597 recreancy1602 starting1602 recreantness1611 recession1614 turncoating1624 recreancea1632 diffidation1640 withdrawment1640 tergiversating1654 turning1665 ratting1789 renegadism1823 turncoatery1841 defection1884 turncoatism1889 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 8v Readyer in the defence of it [sc. wisdom] to haue made an Apologie, then any way to tourne to Apostacie. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 36 To Doubt, or Hesitate, in a point of Allegiance, is direct Treason, and Apostasie. 1773 H. Chapone Lett. Improvem. Mind I. 192 Your apostacy from every good principle. 1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece V. xl. 128 This however was not his last political apostasy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1380 |
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