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A failure to maintain allegiance or support owed to a person, group, or cause.

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disloyalty

The novel treats the character's disclosure as an act of disloyalty.
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Disloyalty becomes a separate issue when the story reveals that a partner secretly works to defeat the shared project after pledging to support it.
From Promises and Accountability.
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