What does apostasy mean?
1 : an act of refusing to continue to follow, obey, or recognize a religious faith. 2 : abandonment of a previous loyalty : defection.
How do you pronounce the word apostasy?
What is the root of apostasy?
The term apostasy comes from the Greek word apostasia (“ἀποστασία”) meaning “defection”, “departure”, “revolt” or “rebellion”. It has been described as “a willful falling away from, or rebellion against, Christianity.
What’s another word for apostasy?
In this page you can discover 21 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for apostasy, like: heresy, defection, renunciation, idolatry, blasphemy, recreance, recreancy, tergiversation, approach, zwinglianism and crossing-over.