About The Word Desertion
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Desertion
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What's The Definition Of Desertion?
[n] withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless"
[n] the act of giving something up Synonyms | Synonyms for Desertion: abandonment | defection | forsaking Related Terms | Find terms related to Desertion: abandonment | absence without leave | absquatulation | apostasy | atheism | AWOL | backsliding | betrayal | bolt | breakaway | crossing-over | decampment | defection | defenselessness | degeneration | dereliction | deserter | desolation | disappearance | disappearing act | disloyalty | elopement | exit | faithlessness | fall from grace | fatherlessness | flight | forlornness | French leave | fugitation | going over | hasty retreat | hegira | helplessness | homelessness | impiety | impiousness | irreligion | irreverence | kithlessness | lapse | lapse from grace | motherlessness | quick exit | ratting | recidivation | recidivism | recreancy | renunciation | running away | schism | scramming | secession | skedaddle | skedaddling | treason | turning traitor | undutifulness | walkout See Also | abscondment | absence without leave | apostasy | bolt | decampment | deviationism | exposure | rejection | tergiversation | unauthorized absence | withdrawal Desertion In Webster's Dictionary \De*ser"tion\, n. [L. desertio: cf. F. d['e]sertion.]
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. --Bancroft.
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.
--South.
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