Crossword-Solution: DEFECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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”
| Clue | Answers |
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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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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.
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.
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.
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 defection of Theriere's party had been discovered, as well as the absence of the girl and the theft of the provisions.
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.
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 …
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…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2006).