Desertion : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Desertion	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Desertion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
desertion n withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them penniless" Synonym(s): desertion, abandonment, defection the act of giving something up Synonym(s): abandonment, forsaking, desertion
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Desertion \Deser"tion\, n. [L. desertio: cf. F. d[82]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.