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Apostasy vs Pursuance - What's the difference?

apostasy | pursuance |

As nouns the difference between apostasy and pursuance

is that apostasy is the renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs while pursuance is a search for something; a pursuit or quest.

apostasy

English

Noun

(apostasies)
  • The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
  • * 1871 , James Anthony Froude, History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth , page 394
    • The King of Navarre suddenly abandoned his party and went over to the Catholics. The explanation of his apostasy was as simple as it was base: Navarre had no confidence in the success of his cause, and he cared little in his heart for anything but women and vanity.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:What had he said, what had he done, after all, to give them the right to fasten on him the charge of apostasy ? He had always been a free critic of everything, and it was natural that, on certain occasions, in the little parlour in Lisson Grove, he should have spoken in accordance with that freedom; but it was only with the Princess that he had permitted himself really to rail at the democracy and given the full measure of his scepticism.
  • Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.

    • Synonyms

    * (renunciation of religion or faith) backsliding, conversion, deconversion * (renunciation of a set of beliefs) defection, disaffection, estrangement

    Related terms

    * apostate * apostatise

    See also

    * deconvert * thoughtcrime

    External links

    * (wikipedia "apostasy")

    pursuance

    English

    Noun

  • A search for something; a pursuit or quest.
  • * Jeremy Taylor
    • Sermons are not like curious inquiries after new nothings, but pursuances of old truths.
  • A completion or putting into effect of something already begun; a prosecution.
  • The state of being pursuant; consequence.

    • Quotations

    *1911 — " *:About 1350 she went to Rome, partly to obtain from the pope the authorization of the new order, partly in pursuance of her self-imposed mission to elevate the moral tone of the age.