Dereliction is valid Scrabble Word

Is dereliction a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is dereliction valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

11 letters word
14 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for DERELICTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

an intentional abandonment
the state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated
The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment.
A neglect or omission as if by willful abandonment.
The state of being left or abandoned.
A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained.
a tendency to be negligent and uncaring
willful negligence
the shameful failure to fulfil one's obligations

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

an intentional abandonment; the state of being abandoned

Words related to DERELICTION

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How to use DERELICTION in a sentence

An inquiry was instituted, our dereliction was exposed, and we were promised a flogging.
The present import of these words shows how men have assumed that mental superiority must be yoked with moral dereliction or diabolical aid.
In vain Henry protested against his dereliction of duty.
They are a departure from, a dereliction of his first principles.
For the slightest offence or dereliction of duty, she is beaten with a waddy or a yam-stick, and not unfrequently speared.
The Indian woman, concerning whom no truthful tale of dereliction can be told, when she arrives at the requisite age, is invested with great power in her tribe.
He openly proclaimed his views, and roundly taxed the government with dereliction of their duty to the Church.
Our heart revolts from that dereliction and our understanding fails to comprehend the reasons for it.
Our final point, for application to ourselves, is that dereliction in some form or another is as much a stage in spiritual progress as autumn and winter are seasons of the year.
In His Divine Dereliction He yet continues to be Human.

But apart from the treachery of the king of Naples and the dereliction of the Pope, it was impossible it should end thoroughly well.
The dereliction from principle of her government seems certain, and thus far the nation, despite the remonstrance of a few worthy men, gives no sign of effective protest.
I suppose there is no dereliction from the Eleventh Commandment, in which people would more joyfully welcome an earthquake than being taken at a similar disadvantage.
To abandon any part of the inheritance of primitive times would be gross heresy, a fatal dereliction of Christian duty.
Nursing the sick and wounded was almost unknown, until the white-clad figure of Florence Nightingale showed the world its dereliction.
It follows, therefore, that parents or guardians are guilty of a grave dereliction of duty if they neglect to satisfy themselves in time on this point.
One of his first measures had been to appeal, in all cases of breach of trust or dereliction of duty, to the proper authorities.
Thus reminded of his dereliction, Parzival immediately left the hall, to renew the quest which had already lasted for many months.
The argument, on which the court of Madrid most relied, was the dereliction of that claim by the preceding ministers.
As the executive government was in a manner convicted of a dereliction of its functions, it was with infinite difficulty that this blow was warded off in that session.
When the dereliction became glaring enough to arrest his attention, he would deliver himself of a volley of abuse which sometimes had to be made good by presents of money.
These noble instances of the dereliction of gain, where it has interfered with principle, I feel it only justice to mention in this place.
Our Saviour Christ upon the rood spoke to His Blessed Mother before His dereliction, but not again afterwards.
Let us now find a case, where, when a person was converted in the army, he left it, pleading this principle, as one among others, for his dereliction of it.
There is, indeed, something seemingly irreconcileable in the thought of such a dereliction or change.

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