Apostasy (noun)
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The abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief or principle.
Middle English from ecclesiastical Latin apostasia, from a late Greek alteration of Greek apostasis ‘defection’.
Example sentences
“They worried the apostasy would spread as though it was contagious.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)