Defection meaning

dēfek′shən, difek′shən
An act or incidence of defecting.
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Defection is defined as deserting your country or cause.

When you are supposed to be in the army serving your country and you flipflop sides and start working for the other side, this is an example of defection.

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Abandonment of loyalty, duty, or principle; desertion.
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The act of defecting from one's country.
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A failing or failure.
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Sentence Examples

  • His defection from the Epicurean school is almost unique.

  • A renewed defection, inspired apparently by aversion to the aristocratic government of the Walls Of Mantineia.

  • The expedition which followed produced negative successes, but the absence of any positive success and the pressure of financial difficulty, coupled with the defection of Jason (probably before 37 1), and the high-handed action of Thebes in destroying Plataea (373), induced Athens to renew the peace with Sparta which Timotheus had broken.

  • In 1876 Minghetti himself had fallen a victim to a similar defection of Conservative deputies.

  • The defection of the English, however, did not induce Prince Eugene to abandon his favourite plan of invading France.

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