Canadian English Meaning of defection

defection

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Definitions and Meaning of defection in English

Wordnet

defection (n)

withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)

Webster

defection (n.)

Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding.

FAQs About the word defection

defection

withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility, the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often

apostasy,deviance,deviation,error,fallacy,Infidelity,Misconception,Schism,scission,sectarianism

agreement,conformity,Orthodoxy,Conformation,conventionality

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