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To: Ish who wrote (42869)	7/18/2002 11:28:21 AM
From: Sarkie	Respond to of 225578

I will work so hard to reinforce it.

To: Ish who wrote (42869)	7/18/2002 11:29:13 AM
From: Sarkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 225578

Word of the Day for Thursday July 18, 2002: apostasy \uh-POS-tuh-see\, noun: Total desertion or departure from one's faith, principles, or party. Party loyalty was fierce, political apostasy despised, and breakaway movements and third parties rarely exercised more than temporary influence. --Edward Ranson, "Electing a president, 1896," History Today, October 1, 1996 The French were advancing the holy cause of liberty; any American who criticized them was guilty of "apostasy" and "heresies." --Richard Brookhiser, "In Love With Revolution," New York Times, November 17, 1996 No sooner did it become clear that this was how I really felt, and that I fully intended to carry on with the war I had started against those ideas, than the exculpatory explanation for my apostasy was dropped, and in its place came shock and a deep sense of betrayal. --Norman Podhoretz, Ex-Friends -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apostasy is derived from Greek apostasis, "a standing away from, a defection, a revolt," from aphistanai, "to stand off or away from, to revolt," from apo-, "from, away from" + histanai, "to stand."