The action or process of going astray; misconduct, misbehaviour.

The action or process of going wrong or astray; a mishap, misfortune; ill fate.

The action or process of going astray; misconduct, sin, error; a transgression.

error, perverseness; doubt, uncertainty.

The action or process of going astray, sinning.

The action of swerve, v.; deviation; departure from a norm, a prescribed or right course, etc.; †error, transgression.

figurative. The action of distorting or perverting from the right course or direction, or the fact of deviating or going astray; an instance of this.

Stepping down, descent. Also a textual variant of digression, n. Obsolete.

figurative. Formerly sometimes absol. = Deviation from rectitude, moral declension, or going astray.