Renunciation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid the resignation of an ecclesiastical office
Example sentence: The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
Defection
Part of speech: noun
Definition: an act or incidence of defecting