apostatize

Etymology

apostate + -ize

verb

  1. To give up or renounce one's position or belief.
    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

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