Another word for apostasy

An instance of defecting from or abandoning a cause

• tergiversation

  1. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
  2. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

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  1. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
  2. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

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• recreancy

  1. The quality or state of being recreant.
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  1. The quality or state of being recreant.
  2. Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

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• recreance

  1. Dated form of recreancy.

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  1. Dated form of recreancy.

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• defection

  1. abandonment of loyalty, duty, or principle; desertion
  2. the act of defecting from one's country
  3. a failing or failure

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  1. abandonment of loyalty, duty, or principle; desertion
  2. the act of defecting from one's country
  3. a failing or failure

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