Meaning of DESERTION
| Pronunciation: | | di'zurshun
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | abandonment, defection, forsaking |
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| | See Also: | | abscondment, absence without leave, apostasy, bolt, decampment, deviationism, exposure, rejection, tergiversation, unauthorized absence, withdrawal | |
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This memoir of a Vietnam era deserter tells of the political and personal factors in his decision to flee to Canada in the 1960s, the difficult life he and other Americans endured, his efforts to find a home after the hostilities ended--complicated by the fact that he had renounced his American citizenship--and of the life he made as a successful Canadian journalist. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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