Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-SER'TION
DE-SER'TION, n.
- The act of forsaking or abandoning, as a party, a friend, a country, an army or military band, or a ship; the act of quitting, with an intention not to return.
- The state of being forsaken by God; spiritual despondency. The agonies of a soul under desertion. – South.
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