Apostasy (noun)
a-pos-ta-see
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.”
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