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n. The act or an instance of deserting.

n. The state of being deserted.

n. Law Willful abandonment of one's spouse or children or both without their consent and with the intention of forsaking all legal obligations to them.

n. The act of deserting.

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.

n. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.

n. The act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a cause, or the post of duty; the act of quitting without leave, and with an intention not to return.

n. The state of being deserted or forsaken.

n. The state of being forsaken by God; spiritual despondency.

n. In law, a wilful abandonment of an employment or a duty, in violation of a legal or moral obligation. Bigelow, Ch. J.

n. In botany Same as lipoxeny.

n. withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

n. the act of giving something up

"The reason is plain: he was, so to speak, of two parties, yet of neither: the one could not forgive his early aspirations for liberty, uttered in imperishable verse; the other could not pardon what they called his desertion of their cause, when he saw that England was willing to do, and was doing, justice to Ireland."

desertion of the diet   

desolation    apostasy    recreancy   

Cistercian    assertion    coercion    exertion    insertion    reassertion   

disobedience    mutiny    betrayal    adultery    neglect    treachery    abandonment    cowardice    ingratitude    treason