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apostacy

apostacy is the archaic form of apostasy.

Meaning of apostasy

Noun

apostasy (countable and uncountable, plural apostasies)

  1. The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
    • 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 his...1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and...
    Synonyms:
    backsliding[emic]] viewpoint only>
  2. Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.

Forms of apostacy

pluralapostacies

Questions about apostacy

What is apostacy the archaic form of?
Apostacy is the archaic form of apostasy.

Words near apostacy in the dictionary

  1. apostacies
  2. apostacize
  3. apostacized
  4. apostacizes
  5. apostacizing
  6. apostacy
  7. apostasies
  8. apostasis
  9. apostasize
  10. apostasized
  11. apostasizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: apostacy (page history and authors); apostasy (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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