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DESERTION
desertion, abandonment, defection
(noun) withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; “his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless”
abandonment, forsaking, desertion
(noun) the act of giving something up
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
desertion (countable and uncountable, plural desertions)
The act of deserting.
Anagrams
• detersion, enteroids, interdose
Source: Wiktionary
De*ser"tion, n. Etym: [L. desertio: cf. F. désertion.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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