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Webster 1913 Edition
Detachment
De-tach′ment
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
détachement
.] 1.
The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
2.
That which is detached; especially, a body of troops or part of a fleet sent from the main body on special service.
Troops . . . widely scattered in little
detachments
. Bancroft.
3.
Abstraction from worldly objects; renunciation.
A trial which would have demanded of him a most heroic faith and the
detachment
of a saint. J. H. Newman.
Webster 1828 Edition
Detachment
DETACHMENT
,Noun.
1.
The act of detaching.2.
A body of troops, selected or taken from the main army, and employed on some special service or expedition.3.
A number of ships, taken from a fleet, and sent on a separate service.