Defection is valid Scrabble Word

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

9 letters word
15 points in Scrabble
17 points in WWF

Definitions for DEFECTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

a failure to carry out a duty
act or an instance of defecting
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.
withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility
the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
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 DEFECTION

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How to use DEFECTION in a sentence

When Soult was operating in the South of France, the defection of two German regiments crippled all his combinations and gave the advantage to Wellington.
To Philip intelligence of the defection of the Aetolians was brought while in winter quarters at Pella.
At the time of his defection, one of them was shot by a soldier, whose regiment she was endeavouring to gain over.
Defection and even treason brought trouble into the court, the councils, and even the family of John.
But the causes of that defection are, we think, clearly shown to have been the peculiarities of the individual, not the weakness of the side which he abandoned.
And he knew she would never understand, never see her own contribution to his mild defection, nor comprehend the actual innocence of those afternoons of tea and talk.
This was a very serious defection, which disheartened the Protestants as much as it encouraged Ferdinand.
She thought her Italian possessions secure, even in case of the defection of the Sardinian king.
From this date we may trace the commencement of a career of defection.
They announce the immortality of man, the unending continuance of the Christian consciousness, unless forfeited by voluntary defection.

She wrung her hands and turned aside into the wood, overwhelmed by his defection from one of their loftiest ideals.
The court no longer espoused this measure, and the violent party was weakened by defection.
Fox made a motion for a committee to inquire into the causes of the ill-success of our arms in North America, and the defection of the Canadians.
In both houses the opposition had, at this time, suffered a severe defection.
Maroto, indeed, with the battalions of Castile, made their submission, and his defection was followed by twenty-one more Carlist battalions.
At this defection of so many Free Soilers the Whig leaders took heart and made a vigorous and successful resistance.
Upon hearing of the defection of his son, Henry hurried back to England.
In 1304, he again marched northward, notwithstanding the defection of many nobles.
The defection of Burgundy was followed by the loss of Paris.
There was no opposition for the nomination, although there were many Democrats who thought my defection the preceding year had prevented the election of the Democratic candidates.
By the defection of Russia, 100,000 Turks are set free in the Caucasus and European Turkey.
He was defeated in the convention through a defection of his supposed friends, which he charged, justly or otherwise, upon Judge Markham.
The king, highly flattered by the defection of Demetrias from the Romans to the Aetolians, resolved to delay no longer his departure into Greece.
It had influenced the others but had already come to rue the day that had seen its own first defection.
Since his defection in June, the conduct of Charles Hardy had been in the highest degree satisfactory.
Their treatment of the Jews and of their slaves made the defection of these two classes of their subjects inevitable.

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