Crossword-Solution: DEFECTION 9 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Word Word Type Definition
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.

We have 37 clues for the answer “DEFECTION”

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recreancy 1 answer
The Berlin Wall's purpose was largely to prevent this 1 answer
defalcation 11 answers
high treason 13 answers
disloyalty 18 answers
recidivism 20 answers
nonconformity 21 answers
slipping back 22 answers
misbelief 22 answers
Heterodoxy 23 answers
Throwback 24 answers
dissidence 26 answers
recurrence 28 answers
disunion 31 answers
tergiversation 32 answers
atavism 34 answers
apostasy 37 answers
Backsliding 39 answers
Heresy 40 answers
Disobedience 40 answers
falseness 47 answers
dissent 51 answers
renunciation 52 answers
desertion 56 answers
Reversion 56 answers
Protest 61 answers
Abandonment 62 answers
shortcoming 64 answers
Lapse 65 answers
relapse 66 answers
alienation 67 answers
Return 72 answers
dissension 72 answers
difference 72 answers
retrogression 73 answers
regression 73 answers
Deteriora-tion 85 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with DEFECTION (5)

His men recognized his voice immediately and as they knew nothing of the defection of any of their fellows, turned the boat’s prow toward shore without waiting for the command from von Horn.
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1994
Trenor, true to her word, had shown no signs of expecting Lily at the bridge-table, and had even hinted to the other card-players that they were to betray no surprise at her unwonted defection.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
Never before had Isabel seemed to prefer any society to her mother’s, and the unhappy Senora felt the defection, even amid her graver trouble.
Remember the Alamo Amelia E. Barr 2008
The defection was discussed in all its bearings, but it seemed sadly clear at last that this uncle must possess some innate badness of character and fondness for low company.
The Golden Age Kenneth Grahame 2008
The defection of Theriere's party had been discovered, as well as the absence of the girl and the theft of the provisions.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

Quotes with DEFECTION (3)

The only weapon of power, its only strategy against this defection, is to reinject the real and the referential everywhere, to persuade us of the reality of the social, of the gravity of the economy and the finalities of production.
Jean Baudrillard Simulacra and Simulation
Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of discipline in the congregation begins in the smallest circles. Where defection from God’s Word in doctrine or life imperils the family fellowship and with it the whole congregation, the word of admonition and rebuke must be ventured. Nothing can be more cruel than the tenderness that consigns another to his sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe rebuke that calls …
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community
Of all the wicked heresies and threatening movements facing the church in our day, when Westminster Seminary finally organized their faculty to write something in unison, they gave their determined political efforts not to fight socialism, not to fight homosexuality, not abortion, not crime and mayhem in our society, not subjectivism in theology, not dispensationalism, not cultural relativism, not licentiousness, not defection from the New Testament, not defection from the We…
Greg L. Bahnsen
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Appears in: NYT.

Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).