Defection and Fear

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Defection noun - Withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility.

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Fear and defection are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Fear" instead a noun "Defection".

Fear noun - The emotion experienced in the presence or threat of danger.

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Defection and fear are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Defection" instead a noun "Fear".

initial	initial defection	initial fear
genuine	genuine defection	genuine fear
massive	massive defection	massive fear
horrible	horrible defection	horrible fear
Other adjectives: apparent, justified.

His defection from his church gets a bit more real when he refuses to turn the squid over for fear it will trigger the wrong apocalypse.

Source: Literature / Kraken
After Peridot cements her HeelFace Turn, she spends the next couple of hours descending into madness born of fear and confusion over her defection from Yellow Diamond.

Source: Being Good Sucks
In The President's Analyst, the title character gets out of a forced defection to the USSR by getting his KGB captor to realize, in very short order, that he became a spy only out of fear of his father, who had arrested his mother in a Stalin-era purge.

Source: Single-Issue Psychology

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