apostatize
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apostatize (third-person singular simple present apostatizes, present participle apostatizing, simple past and past participle apostatized)
- To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
- 1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade:
- Soft enticements of domestic life too often draw him from the ascetic trail; a monk who apostatizes to the world at times.
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give up one's position or belief
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