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s | apostasy |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun apostasy is

the renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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

    See also

    * deconvert * thoughtcrime