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单词 apostasy
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apostasyn.

Brit. /əˈpɒstəsi/, U.S. /əˈpɑstəsi/
Forms: Also 1500s–1800s apostacy.
Etymology: (? < French apostasie), < Latin apostasia, < later Greek ἀποστασία = ἀπόστασις ‘standing off,’ hence, desertion of one's faith, < ἀποστα- to stand off, withdraw.
1.
a. Abandonment or renunciation of one's religious faith or moral allegiance.
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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.
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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.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > desertion of one's party or principles
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declining1526
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back-turning1535
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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).
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