apostasynoun [ U ]
uk/əˈpɒs.tə.si/us/əˈpɑː.stə.si/formalthe act of giving up your religious or political beliefs and leaving a religion or a political party:
In those days apostasy was punishable by death.
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Religious people: believers & non-believers
- agnostic
- apophatic
- apostate
- atheist
- believer
- Bible-basher
- freethinker
- God-fearing
- godless
- hard core
- hard core
- heathen
- humanism
- parishioner
- pilgrim
- revisionism
- skeptic
- the laity
- theist
- unbeliever
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