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Forsaker

One who forsakes or deserts

Forsake

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Expatriation

Expatriation, the forsaking one's own country, and renouncing allegiance, with the intention of becoming a permanent resident and citizen in another

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Deserter

One who forsakes a duty a cause or a party a friend or any one to whom he owes service especially

desertion

desertion : the forsaking of a person, post, or relationship: as a : permanent withdrawal from living with one's spouse without the

Leave

verb in Webster's New International Dictionary at p. 1287 where it has been defined as meaning 'desert, abandon, forsake, to give up the practice, to quit service and the alike.' In Webster's New World Dictionary at p.

Desertion

of England (3rd Edn.), Vol. 12, in the following words:' 'In its essence desertion means the intentional permanent forsaking and abandonment of one spouse by the other without that other's consent and without reasonable cause. It is

Abandun, or Abandum

in bannum res missa, a thing banned or denounced as forfeited or lost, whence to abandon, desert, or forsake, as lost and gone, Cowel. Pasquier thinks it a coalition of a ban donner, to give up to

Abjuration

signified an oath taken by a person accused of crime who had claimed sanctuary (see that tile) to forsake the realm for ever. It was abolished by 12 Jac. 1, c. 28. The oath of abjuration (introduced

Forsay

To forbid to renounce to forsake to deny

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