FromLatinapostasia, fromAncient Greekἀποστασία(apostasía,“defection, revolt”), fromἀφίστημι(aphístēmi,“I withdraw, revolt”), fromἀπό(apó,“from”) +ἵστημι(hístēmi,“I stand”).
apostasy (countable anduncountable,pluralapostasies)
- Therenunciation of abelief or set of beliefs.
- Synonym:backsliding(emic viewpoint only)
- Hyponyms:conversion,deconversion,reconversion
1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, inWaverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […]James Ballantyne and Co. forArchibald Constable and Co.; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,→OCLC:The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse at the Hall occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world to which Waverley-Honour formed the centre: but the more judicious politicians of this microcosm augured yet worse consequences to Richard Waverley from a movement which shortly followed hisapostasy.
1856–1870,James Anthony Froude,History of England from the Fall ofWolsey to the Death ofElizabeth, volume(please specify |volume=I to XII), London:Longmans, Green, and Co.,→OCLC, [https:// page394]:The King of Navarre suddenly abandoned his party and went over to the Catholics. The explanation of hisapostasy was as simple as it was base: Navarre had no confidence in the success of his cause, and he cared little in his heart for anything but women and vanity.
1886,Henry James,The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:What had he said, what had he done, after all, to give them the right to fasten on him the charge ofapostasy? He had always been a free critic of everything, and it was natural that, on certain occasions, in the little parlour in Lisson Grove, he should have spoken in accordance with that freedom; but it was only with the Princess that he had permitted himself really to rail at the democracy and given the full measure of his scepticism.
- Specifically, the renunciation of one'sreligion orfaith.
- Synonyms:defection,disaffection,estrangement
renunciation of set of beliefs
- Arabic:رِدَّة f(ridda),اِرْتِدَاد m(irtidād)
- Azerbaijani:irtidad
- Belarusian:адсту́пніцтва n(adstúpnictva)
- Bulgarian:отстъ́пничество (bg) n(otstǎ́pničestvo),вероотстъ́пничество n(verootstǎ́pničestvo)
- Catalan:apostasia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:變節 /变节 (zh)(biànjié),叛教 (zh)(pànjiào)
- Czech:odpadlictví n
- Dutch:afvalligheid (nl) f
- Finnish:luopuminen (fi),luopuminenuskosta,luopumus
- French:apostasie (fr) f
- Georgian:განდგომილობა(gandgomiloba)
- German:Abtrünnigkeit f
- Gothic:𐌰𐍆𐍃𐍄𐌰𐍃𐍃 f(afstass)
- Greek:αποστασία (el) f(apostasía)
- Ancient:ἀποστασία f(apostasía)
- Hausa:ridda
- Hungarian:aposztázia (hu)
- Indonesian:murtad (id),kemurtadan (id)
- Irish:athchreideamh m,séanadh creidimh m
- Italian:apostasia (it) f
- Japanese:背教 (ja)(はいきょう, haikyō),背信 (ja)(はいしん, haishin)
- Korean:배교(背教) (ko)(baegyo)
- Kyrgyz:иртидaд(irtidad)
- Latin:apostasia f
- Macedonian:отпадништво n(otpadništvo),отстапништво n(otstapništvo)
- Maori:apotatatanga,ngākau rere
- Persian:ارتداد (fa)(ertedâd)
- Polish:odstępstwo (pl) n,odszczepieństwo n,apostazja (pl) f,apostazja (pl) f
- Portuguese:apostasia (pt) f
- Romanian:apostazie (ro) f
- Russian:отступни́чество (ru) n(otstupníčestvo),отсту́пничество (ru) n(otstúpničestvo)
- Somali:ridda
- Spanish:apostasía (es) f
- Swedish:avfall (sv) n,apostasi (sv) c
- Tajik:иртидод(irtidod)
- Turkish:irtidad (tr)
- Turkmen:irtidad
- Ukrainian:відсту́пництво n(vidstúpnyctvo)
- Uzbek:irtidod
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renunciation of one's religion or faith
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