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Definition of Apostates
1. apostate [n] - See also: apostate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apostates
Literary usage of Apostates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"... because owing to - the apostasy of apostates being a religion produced by ...
and the apostates and priests, are fraternal opponents, and whenever the ..."
2. The Women of Mormonism; Or, The Story of Polygamy as Told by the Victims by Jennie Anderson Froiseth (1882)
"Courage of the apostates. women of Mormonism—(in this general classification are
included all who have ever been identified with the church)—may be divided ..."
3. The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from by Thomas B. H. Stenhouse (1873)
"The Mercantile Struggle against Despotism— "Freezing out the Gentiles"—Police
Surveillance of apostates' Stores—The Walker Brothers—Brigham refuses a Check ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"Both in Egypt and Palestine, bis cruel and wanton per- CHAP. secution made some
martyrs and many apostates: the L4"' ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"The king now becomes a friend and benefactor of the Jews, whom he permits to kill
the apostates, a privilege of which they make much use. ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... bo- of the individual, and the best inte« apostates, who there tell him that
he we are concerned, he shall neither is a man of great ..."
7. Commentaries on the Life and Reign of Charles the First, King of England by Isaac Disraeli (1851)
"37S THE FIRST POLITICAL apostates. So paradoxical was the position into which
the sovereign had ... THE FIRST POLITICAL apostates.—SIR T. WENTWORTH. ..."
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