Defections Synonyms

The state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. apostasies
  2. renunciations
  3. withdrawals
  4. abandonments
Failure
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. apostasies
  2. lacks
  3. deficiencies
  4. failings
Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abandonments
  2. desertions

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Defections Sentence Examples

  • Peirce (1673-1726) of Exeter, was to leave dissenting congregations to determine their own orthodoxy; the General Baptists had already (1700) condoned defections from the common doctrine.

  • From Pennsylvania the sect spread chiefly westward, and, after various vicissitudes, caused by defections and divisions due to doctrinal differences, in 1908 were most numerous in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and North Dakota.

  • The effect of the congress and of this propaganda was to hasten the disintegration in the Austro-Hungarian army, and the High Command (in a communiqué of July 27) admitted that wholesale defections of the Czechoslovaks and the Yugosla y s had.

  • The English or anglicized element in Scotland was never subjugated by England, save during the few years of the Cromwellian Commonwealth, and was supported (with occasional defections, and troubles caused by dynastic Celtic risings) by the Celtic element in the kingdom during the long struggle for national independence.

  • Lord Cranborne, Lord Carnarvon and General Peel, refused to be parties to the measure, and resigned office, the government being necessarily weakened by these defections.

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