(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.
Magi
Definition:
(n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Example Sentences:
(1) Gentile da Fabriano (d 1427) in his Adoration of the Kings, demonstrates a similar response of toe extension in the infant Jesus when one of the Magi kisses the baby's foot.
(2) Germaine Greer; Julie Bishop; engineer and founder of Youth Without Borders, Yassmin Abdel-Magied; author, academic and Guardian US columnist Roxane Gay; and Best & Less CEO Holly Kramer.
(3) The scene is based on the account of Jesus' birth in the gospel of Matthew, though Matthew does not record a mishap whereby the magi accidentally bestow their gifts on Terry Jones in a dress.
(4) Male accessory gland infection (MAGI, epididymo-prostato-vesiculitis) with abnormal semen quality was rarely the only abnormality in infertile couples since it occurred in no more than 1.6% of 2871 couples evaluated in 7 centres during a 3-year period.
(5) It is concluded that features of MAGI in semen may regress spontaneously and are not influenced by the doxycycline treatment.
(6) And of course the authorities are incensed, affirming once again that old adage: there is only one thing more cheerless than a Magi with a severed head – a local bureaucrat armed with zoning laws.
(7) It’s not enough to point out, as Abdel-Magied did, that structural inequality is to blame for the lack of women’s progress.
(8) "It neither makes sense to get into an adoration of the magi stance of the New Labour project, nor a repudiationist stance," he says, at one point.
(9) I remember how surprised I was when one of the mothers asked me if her three children could dress up as the three magi at Epiphany, when Austrian children from each parish go from house to house collecting money for the Catholic Three Wise Kings’ mission.
(10) Updated at 12.02pm BST 11.55am BST No crib for a bed Lest there be any doubt that 19-year-old Nick Kyrgios has made his mark at Wimbledon, the old magi of Australian tennis have been lined up to pay tribute.
(11) The judge, Oscar Magi, dismissed the libel accusations but upheld the other charges.
(12) In the sculpture The Adoration of the Magi by the 13th century sculptor Arnolfo di Cambio deformities characteristic of arthritis may be seen in the hands of the central magus.
(13) 6.49pm BST But the wise Aussie magi could have told him that a break doesn't count as a break until you've backed it up with your serve.
(14) Caillebotte can make a painting out of nothing, and that’s what Heaney can do, too – that’s the lovely thing about it.” Also included in the anthology is the late Dennis O’Driscoll’s poem Memo to a Painter, inspired by the 16th-century painting The Adoration of the Magi, which depicts the nativity in elegant surroundings, without the stable or its animals.
(15) Now Wordsworth Editions has released The Drug and Other Stories , which includes five works that have never been published before: Ambrosii Magi Hortus Rosarum, The Murder in X.
(16) On the straw ground in front of Jesus is the severed head of a second Magi.
(17) These days he almost counts as one of the elderly Aussie magi.
(18) To a certain extent, the numbers created by the magi of the economy have been our beacons through the recession and the slow recovery.