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- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
De*ser"tion (d&esl;*z&etilde;r"shŭn),
n. [L. desertio: cf. F.
désertion.] 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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