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Apostasy in a sentence
Apostasy meaning
- The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
- Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
Synonyms of Apostasy
Using Apostasy
- The main meaning on this page is: The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs. | Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.
- Useful related words include: renunciation, defection, rejection, tergiversation.
- In the example corpus, apostasy often appears in combinations such as: of apostasy, apostasy from, apostasy is.
Context around Apostasy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Apostasy
- In this selection, "apostasy" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, makes, new, issue, leaving, destabilized and supporters stand out and add context to how "apostasy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and issue apostasy decrees against and apostasy is legal. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "apostasy" sits close to words such as abdicated, acme and afcfta, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with apostasy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Blasphemy and apostasy are capital offenses under sharia. (8 words)
Apostasy is one of the worst crimes in Islam and can carry the death penalty. (15 words)
Sisters Alex and Luisa strive to follow in their mother Ivanna’s footsteps in Apostasy. (15 words)
He’s a male Karen, and a call to one of Charlie Parker’s snitch lines probably wouldn’t have produced the required results — namely, shaming the women for their apostasy from the official new state cult. (37 words)
But a growing number of apostasy supporters express frustration with the church over its opposition to divorce and same-sex marriage (both of which nonetheless became legal in 1987 and 2010, respectively) as well as legal abortion. (37 words)
Here, the inclination is to be more kind and welcome a “sinner” who — on this issue, at least — has found redemption (though I wonder if he has informed his boss on the new apostasy). (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Apostasy is legal in secular Muslim countries such as Turkey. citation In numerous Islamic majority countries, many individuals have been arrested and punished for the crime of apostasy without any associated capital crimes.
Apostasy is one of the worst crimes in Islam and can carry the death penalty.
The blasphemy chapter has been expanded from one to six articles, and for the first time includes an article that makes apostasy – leaving a religion or belief – a criminal offense.
The episode involving the defection from the ruling party of several lawmakers, still widely known in Greece as the "apostasy," destabilized the constitutional order and led to a military coup in 1967.
Here, the inclination is to be more kind and welcome a “sinner” who — on this issue, at least — has found redemption (though I wonder if he has informed his boss on the new apostasy).
He’s a male Karen, and a call to one of Charlie Parker’s snitch lines probably wouldn’t have produced the required results — namely, shaming the women for their apostasy from the official new state cult.
Blasphemy and apostasy are capital offenses under sharia.
Booker, too, has been a mayor—of Newark, a city far bigger than South Bend—and he has a record of defying progressive orthodoxiesflaunting his apostasy.
The notion of prosecuting blasphemy or even apostasy has no scriptural basis in Islam: while disbelief is mentioned more than 150 times in the Quran, an earthly punishment is not.
But a growing number of apostasy supporters express frustration with the church over its opposition to divorce and same-sex marriage (both of which nonetheless became legal in 1987 and 2010, respectively) as well as legal abortion.
Instead, they believe in violence, intimidation, and coercion and issue apostasy decrees against faithful Muslims and even kill them every now and then, he added.
Moreover, this theologically sanctioned violence is there to be activated by any number of offenses, including but not limited to adultery, blasphemy, homosexuality and apostasy—that is, to leave Islam.
Rejecting Sunni Islam as apostasy, Khomeini claimed to be the leader of the entire Muslim world, a claim rejected by the Sunni Muslim rulers of the Middle East.
Sisters Alex and Luisa strive to follow in their mother Ivanna’s footsteps in Apostasy.
The parish priest had formally declared his apostasy and left the priesthood to become a married merchant.
Al-Azhar ruled that the man committed the crime of apostasy, he should be given a chance to repent and return to Islam, and if he refuses he must be killed.
And of the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain citation which aims to break the taboo that comes with renouncing Islam and to oppose apostasy laws and political Islam.
Apostasy, the conscious abandonment of Islam by a Muslim in word or through deed, including also conversion to Christianity, is punishable as a crime under applications of the Sharia (countries in the graph).
Capital punishment for apostasy in Islam and stoning to death in Islam are controversial topics.
David Cloud's Way of Life Literature also criticizes Falwell for associations with Catholics, Pentecostals and liberal Christians, tracing his alleged "apostasy" back to his role in the political Religious Right.
Common combinations with apostasy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of apostasy 10×
- apostasy from 7×
- apostasy is 5×
- and apostasy 3×
- for apostasy 3×
- apostasy in 3×
- the apostasy 2×
- their apostasy 2×
- apostasy are 2×
- his apostasy 2×