dereliction.
Willful neglect of one's duty.
Meaning & usage
Willful neglect of one's duty.
The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.
Where this word comes from
From Latin dērelictiō (“neglect, abandonment”), from dērelinquō (“to neglect, abandon”), from dē- + re- + linquō (“to leave”).
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