apostatize
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Verb (1)apostatized, apostatizing
- abandon one's beliefs or allegiancesSynonyms: apostatisetergiversateMore general disown, renounce
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
A·pos′ta·tize (…), intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Apostatized (…); present participle & verbal noun Apostatizing.]
Origin: LL. apostatizare.
To renounce totally a religious belief once professed; to forsake one's church, the faith or principles once held, or the party to which one has previously adhered.
He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in semblances.— Thomas Carlyle
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54