- 1. 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. Source: opted
- 2. n. The state of being forsaken; desolation; as, the king in his desertion. Source: opted
- 3. n. Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency. Source: opted
- 4. n. withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility Source: wordnet
- 5. n. the act of giving something up Source: wordnet
- 6. 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
- 7. n:100 n. withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility Source: ecdict
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