A WORD A DAY.
.APOSTASY. This word, while used principally in an ecclesiastical sense, indicates the abandonment of what one has voluntarily professed, a complete renunciation of and departure from one’s faith, ideals, or party. The word came into the English through the French apostasie and the late Latin apostasia, from the Greek apostasis, “a defection, revolt,” literally, “a standing away from,” from apo, "off, from,” and stasis, “a standing.” , “Pervert” is the word used to stigmatize one who has been. influenced to desert his position; “apostate,” however, is a stronger term, and indicates one who voluntarily forsakes his faith. A-pos-ta-sy is accented on the second syllable; sound each a as in sofa, o as in odd, y as in fancy. “Apostasy has been the course of some who seemed to find the path too straight.”
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Southland Times, Issue 21273, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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136A WORD A DAY. Southland Times, Issue 21273, 19 December 1930, Page 6
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