apostasize

Similarly the heroism of Hannah, the mother of seven sons, who saw all her children slaughtered in one day for refusing to apostasize (2 Maccabees 7; 4 Maccabees 8 – 18), is linked with Hanukkah.

Festivals and Holy Days. 2009

“The Islamic tradition is pretty well known for the penalty it imposes on those who blaspheme Islam or apostasize themselves from the faith.”

The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008

To kill, symbolically, according to the significance of the second seal, p. 60, is to compel men to apostasize; and they could not be in a condition to force their religion on the men of the eastern empire, without first subjecting it by force of arms.

A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse Sylvester Bliss 1838

Those that are sincere in religion may trust in God that they shall not slide, that is, that they shall not apostasize from their religion.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

Popper may have had other reasons besides faith to apostasize. buberzionist: Rabbis have feuded and excommunicated each other.

BuberZionist.com 2009

Can a Christian fall away or apostasize (is that a word)?

Pulpit Pimps 2008

"I will never be satisfied so long as the meanest cottager in Ireland has a link of the British chain clanking in his rags; he may be naked, he shall not be in irons; and I do see the time is at hand; the spirit has gone forth, the declaration is planted; and though great men should apostasize, yet the cause will live; and though the public speaker should die, yet the immortal fire shall outlast the organ which conveyed it, and the breath of liberty, like the word of holy men, will not die with the prophet, but survive him."

The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914 Roger Casement 1890