Search billions of records on Ancestry.com. Native Polish surnames, just as surnames of other Slavonic nations, can be roughly divided into three main groups: those derived from original nicknames, as names of animals, trees, things, professions,
Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Betrayal. Betrayal is the breaking or violation of a presumptive contract, trust, or confidence that produces moral and psychological conflict within a relationship amongst individuals, between organizations or between individuals and organizations.
Betrayal may also be felt when a child is abused by a relative or friend, or from a non-abusing adult who did nothing to protect the child. This may lead to feelings of loss and grief towards caretakers which later may transcend itself into a fear of intimacy and mistrust towards oneâs self and others.