Dereliction is valid Scrabble Word

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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Words that contain 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.

Similar words containing RELIC without suffix tion and without prefix de

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