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Someone who decided the war would continue fine without their opinion.
means Someone who abandons a post, duty, cause, or group — especially a soldier who flees military service without permission.
from From French déserteur, rooted in Latin desertus (abandoned, forsaken), past participle of deserere — 'to undo the binding, to leave behind' (de- 'away' + serere 'to join, bind together'). The same serere gives us words about joining and connecting; a deserter, at the root, is someone who unjoins — who unties the knot that bound them to their place.
- legal status
- punishable by death in most militaries historically
- famous case
- george washington's army lost thousands to desertion
- peacetime version
- called going awol instead
- irony
- often braver to leave than to stay