单词 | desertion |
释义 | desertionn. 1. a. The action of deserting, forsaking, or abandoning, esp. a person or thing that has moral or legal claims to the deserter's support; sometimes simply, abandonment of or departure from a place. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > reversal of or forsaking one's will or purpose > [noun] > deserting a person or thing forsakingc1320 leaving1526 desertion1591 relinquishment1593 deserting1646 1591 W. Perkins (title) Spiritual Desertions, seruing to Terrifie all Drowsie Protestants. 1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 131 Season, and sea, and winde, and their masters desertion had agreed to render them perfectly miserable. 1651 W. Davenant Gondibert ii. iii. lxiv These scorn the Courts dissertion of their age. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 632 Swounings of despair, And sense of Heav'ns desertion . View more context for this quotation 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 178 After the Desertion of this Island by the Romans. 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 170. ⁋13 Mingled his assurances of protection..with threats of total desertion. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xxviii. 278 A desertion of the coast and a trial of the open water. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues I. 325 He is certain that desertion of his duty is an evil. b. A person who deserts. ΚΠ 1898 H. G. Wells War of Worlds i. xvii The Midland Railway Company had replaced the desertions of the first day's panic. 2. Law. The wilful abandonment of an employment or of duty, in violation of a legal or moral obligation; esp. such abandonment of the military or naval service. Also, wilful abandonment of the conjugal society, without reasonable cause, on the part of a husband or wife. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > [noun] > desertion desertion1712 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > divorce or dissolution > [noun] > desertion desertion1891 1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. Introd. 18 In case of Death, Sickness or Desertion of any of the above Officers. 1811 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) VIII. 292 They have nearly put a stop to desertion from the enemy's ranks. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lvii. 231 Ranks thinned by frequent desertions. 1891 Sir H. C. Lopes in Law Times' Rep. 65 603/1 To constitute desertion the parties must be living together as man and wife when the desertion takes place. 3. Scots Law. desertion of the diet: Abandonment of proceedings on the libel in virtue of which the panel has been brought into court; which may be simpliciter, altogether, or pro loco et tempore, temporarily. See desert v. 4. ΚΠ 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 281/1 The effect of such a [simpliciter] desertion of the diet is declared to be, that the panel shall be for ever free of all challenge or question touching that offence. 4. a. Deserted condition; desertedness. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn forletnessa1300 desolation1598 desolatenessa1626 desertion1751 forlornness1850 desertedness1866 forlornitya1870 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > deserted condition desertnessa1400 desolationc1460 deserta1500 vastity1545 desolatenessa1626 wastefulness1674 desertedness1818 desertion1876 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 174. ⁋13 I was convinced, by a total desertion, of the impropriety of my conduct. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. iii. 8 That long drear dream of desertion. 1876 F. W. Farrar In Days of Youth vi. 51 The College buildings will be almost melancholy in their desertion and silence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > [noun] rueeOE teeneOE sorrowOE gramec1000 sytec1175 ruthc1225 dolea1240 balec1275 sighinga1300 dolour13.. ermingc1300 heartbreakc1330 discomfortc1350 griefa1375 tristourc1380 desolation1382 sichinga1387 tristesse1390 compassiona1400 rueinga1400 smarta1400 displeasure14.. gremec1400 heavity14.. dillc1420 notea1425 discomforturec1450 dolefulnessc1450 wandremec1450 regratec1485 doleance1490 trista1510 mispleasance1532 pathologiesa1586 balefulness1590 drearing1591 distressedness1592 woenessa1600 desertion1694 ruesomeness1881 schmerz1887 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 84 The spiritual Agonies of a Soul under Desertion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1591 |
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