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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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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• apostasy

  1. Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.

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  1. Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.

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Failure

• deficiency

  1. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
  2. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health:

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  1. The quality or condition of being deficient; incompleteness or inadequacy.
  2. A lack or shortage, especially of something essential to health:

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• lack

  1. Deficiency or absence:
  2. A particular deficiency or absence:
  3. To be without or in need of:

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  1. Deficiency or absence:
  2. A particular deficiency or absence:
  3. To be without or in need of:

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• failing

  1. The act of a person or thing that fails; a failure.
  2. A minor fault.
  3. Undergoing failure:

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  1. The act of a person or thing that fails; a failure.
  2. A minor fault.
  3. Undergoing failure:

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Desertion

• going over to the other side

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• apostasy

  1. Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.

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  1. Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause.

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• abandonment

  1. The act of abandoning property or a right with no intent of reclaiming it or of later giving it away or selling it. See also forfeiture, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, and waiver.
  2. The act of abandoning a person with the intent of terminating the duties or him or her. For example, the intentional failure by a parent to communicate with or to provide financial or other support to his children. See also desertion.

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  1. The act of abandoning property or a right with no intent of reclaiming it or of later giving it away or selling it. See also forfeiture, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, and waiver.
  2. The act of abandoning a person with the intent of terminating the duties or him or her. For example, the intentional failure by a parent to communicate with or to provide financial or other support to his children. See also desertion.

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• withdrawal

  1. A retreat or retirement:
  2. The removal of people from a place, as in the removal of troops from a military position.
  3. Detachment, as from social or emotional involvement.

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  1. A retreat or retirement:
  2. The removal of people from a place, as in the removal of troops from a military position.
  3. Detachment, as from social or emotional involvement.

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