defection

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Defection from the mainstream is preferable to assimilation, and if the proverbial desert does not promise deliverance, it inspires a particular attunement.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 23, 2019

April 26 The Morning Line: Eskendereya’s Defection The Derby once again loses an early favorite to injury.

From New York Times • Apr. 27, 2010

Defection would mean losing all of these sure advantages for a doubtful future in a strange country.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Defection of Prussia—The Archduke Charles Frederick William's advisers, who imagined the violation of every principle of justice and truth an indubitable proof of instinctive and consummate prudence, unwittingly played a high and hazardous game.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

But the great fact remains that the Defection of the Netherlands and the Thirty Years' War are the earliest historical classics in the German language.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno