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third-person singular simple present apostatizes, present participle apostatizing, simple past and past participle apostatized
To give up or renounce one's position or belief. quotations examples
Soft enticements of domestic life too often draw him from the ascetic trail; a monk who apostatizes to the world at times.
1857, Herman Melville, chapter XXVI, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade