desertion

[de·ser·tion]

Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

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The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.

Noun
withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"

Noun
the act of giving something up


n.
The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.

n.
The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion.

n.
Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.


Desertion

De*ser"tion , n. [L. desertio: cf. F. d'82sertion.] 1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.
Such a resignation would have seemed to his superior a desertion or a reproach.
2. The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion. 3. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.
The spiritual agonies of a soul under desertion.

The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service.

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Usage Examples

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

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