meaning of defection

1. 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.
2.
withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility; "his abandonment of his wife and children left them ">penniless"


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