(n.) An abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed; a total desertion of departure from one's faith, principles, or party; esp., the renunciation of a religious faith; as, Julian's apostasy from Christianity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The residents told AP that the militants claimed the mosque had become a place for apostasy, not prayer.
(2) Anonymous callers or others using names such as the Cyber Army of Allah have accused BBC Persian staff of being drug dealers, converting to Bahaism or Chrstianity – potentially a capital offence in Iran as it is considered to be apostasy – or taking bribes.
(3) Referring to the two hadith in which Muhammad reportedly condemns apostasy as a capital offence, Maher Hathout , author of In Pursuit of Justice: The Jurisprudence of Human Rights in Islam writes: "both of them contradict the Qur'an and other instances in which the Prophet did not compel anyone to embrace Islam, nor punish them if they recanted."
(4) According to a placard tied to his corpse, Asaad was accused of apostasy.
(5) His parents were Methodists, a fact to which he attributed his lifelong political and intellectual apostasy.
(6) The video condemns the doctrine of the Trinity as a form of apostasy, and brands Christians as infidels.
(7) There is a lot of confusion in the air regarding the thorny issue of conversion and "apostasy" in the Muslim world.
(8) Instead of living stoically and ironically with her "contradictions", she broke ranks to explore the creative possibilities of disintegration: mental illness, political apostasy, the sex war, and the cold war between generations.
(9) Those who convert to other religions risk arrest or even execution for apostasy.
(10) You can spend your life believing women should be second-class citizens and homosexuality and apostasy are crimes that in an ideal Islamic state deserve the death sentence and never harm anyone apart from your wife and children.
(11) However, his bitter criticism of the conduct of the miners' strike of 1984-85 and the leadership of Arthur Scargill was regarded by many of his old comrades as an apostasy too far.
(12) Before the apocalypse arrives, it is pledged to destroying all 200 million Shia Muslims, whom it regards as heretics, all other Muslims who by accepting secular governance confirm their apostasy, and the “army of Rome” (the west).
(13) People should know I am not against anyone here, I am an artist and I am just looking for my freedom.” Fayadh, who co-curated a show at the 2013 Venice Biennale , was originally sentenced to four years in prison and 800 lashes for apostasy by the general court in Abha, a city in the south-west of the ultraconservative kingdom, in May 2014.
(14) They included people killed on the grounds of homosexuality, practising magic and apostasy.
(15) Under the Gulf nation’s strict version of sharia law, drug trafficking, rape, murder, apostasy and armed robbery are all punishable by death.
(16) Although Mona won the case, El Sadaawi says that this, and another court case in 2002 – brought by a lawyer who sought to have El Sadaawi forcibly divorced on the basis of apostasy (abandonment of religion) – has left her bruised.
(17) Had he been a Christian or an atheist, he would have been killed for apostasy under Saudi law.
(18) Kasich’s apostasy would make him interesting if Republicans weren’t in Trump’s thrall.
(19) Its appalling reputation for human rights abuses has been reinforced by the cases of the free-thinking blogger, Raif Badawi , sentenced to be flogged, and the Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh , who is facing death for the crime of “apostasy”.
(20) A user known as Abu Mohammed, a founder of RBSS, also reported that the woman was killed after her son accused her of apostasy.
Estrangement
Definition:
(n.) The act of estranging, or the state of being estranged; alienation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, a provision in the deal ensures that Sterling’s estranged wife Shelly, current trustee of the Sterling Family Trust, will remain associated with the team as its “owner emeritus and No1 fan”.
(2) A day after making a personal appeal to the US and Cuban leaders to end their half-century of estrangement , Francis issued his plea to Colombia’s warring factions from Revolution Plaza at the end of his Sunday mass.
(3) As a result of this synthesis the sensation of "ego", appears, and information estranged from it and offered for others is determined.
(4) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(5) Her estranged father had initially opposed her wishes.
(6) The claim was made in the high court in London by Young's estranged wife, Michelle, who is divorcing him.
(7) As a result of Wesker’s affairs, Dusty and Wesker were estranged and Wesker went to live in Wales.
(8) The revulsion was shared by Breivik's estranged father.
(9) Another told police that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel “couldn’t understand why Isis couldn’t claim its own territory” and others quizzed by detectives, including his estranged wife, spoke of his “violent behaviour”, Molins said.
(10) In the vocational, comprehensive, and agricultural schools, the dropouts scored more positively on the self-estrangement, meaninglessness, and misfeasance scales.
(11) So Shelly Sterling’s reward is to remain a visible part of the franchise, courtside whenever she feels like it, while her estranged husband is banned from the stadium.
(12) It is one of the few things upon which politicians and an estranged electorate agree.
(13) Faced with a violent stepfather and a mother with mental health issues (from whom he is now estranged), he took solace in his teddy bear, Alan Measles.
(14) The King's friendship with Robert Carr (who was later made Earl of Somerset), coupled with his estrangement from Queen Anne, may have been an inspiration for at least two literary accounts of kingship confounded by sex: Lady Mary Wroth's Urania (1621) and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra (1608).
(15) The planned apology over Iraq is aimed at helping win back party members who either left or have stayed but felt estranged as a result of the decision to go to war, which Corbyn voted against.
(16) Before she got that opportunity, however, she was shot dead in 2009 by her estranged husband, who promptly killed himself as well.
(17) Certain family situiations create a split between some family members and the suicidal adolescent to the point of total estrangement.
(18) Although Levene and PiL frontman John Lydon remain estranged, Commercial Zone 2014 has the support of the band's former drummer, Martin Atkins.
(19) I asked Coleman if it is ever really possible to be estranged from your family when online culture is so prevalent.
(20) might persuade his estranged wife to lobby on his behalf to her dad.