Sabbath-breaker, absconder, apostasy, apostate, atheist, backslider, betrayal, blasphemer, bolt, bolter, breakaway, collaborationist, collaborator, convert, defection, defector, dereliction, desertion, escapee, fifth columnist, fugitive, mugwump, outlaw, proselyte, quisling, rat, ratting, recidivist, recreant, renegade, renegado, renegate, reversionist, runagate, runaway, sacrilegist, schism, schismatic, seceder, secession, secessionist, separatist, strikebreaker, tergiversant, tergiversator, traitor, turnabout, turncoat, turntail, unbeliever, walkout

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ROGET THESAURUS

deserter

Tergiversation

N tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation, withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

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