Defections is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFECTIONS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• DEFECTION, a failure to carry out a duty
• the desertion of one's country or cause in favour of an opposing one
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine); desertion

Words related to DEFECTIONS

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How to use DEFECTIONS in a sentence

• Many of the small stockholders were standing firm, though there had been panicky defections in spite of all that could be done.
• And few, indeed, were the defections among his retainers.
• The defections had been serious, and it was said that only five of the twenty-four still adhered to the opposition.
• Poor Whiston grievously lamented the triumph of interest over truth, which these defections implied.
• In both cases, the consequences of such defections were ultimately to deepen the devotion of the firm believers.
• There were two defections, the baron and the chevalier, who went to sleep in their respective chairs.
• Finally, it seemed hardly doubtful that fatal defections would take place in the Border States, even if they should not formally go over to the Confederacy.
• There were defections in the ranks of the Democracy.

Similar words containing FECTION without suffix s and without prefix de

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