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noun

Departure n.

1.

Division; separation; putting away. (Obs.) "No other remedy... but absolute departure."

2.

Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away. "Departure from this happy place."

3.

Removal from the present life; death; decease. "The time of my departure is at hand." "His timely departure... barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries."

4.

Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose. "Any departure from a national standard."

5.

(Law) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.

6.

(Nav. & Surv.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line. Note: Since the meridians sensibly converge, the departure in navigation is not measured from the beginning nor from the end of the ship's course, but is regarded as the total easting or westing made by the ship or person as he travels over the course.

To take a departure (Nav. & Surv.), to ascertain, usually by taking bearings from a landmark, the position of a vessel at the beginning of a voyage as a point from which to begin her dead reckoning; as, the ship took her departure from Sandy Hook.

Synonyms: Death; demise; release. See Death.

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"Departure" Quotes from Famous Books

... up his lips and shook his head. He advised an immediate departure to Cairo. It was a case for a specialist. He himself would hesitate to pronounce an opinion; though, to be sure, there was ...

— The Four Feathers • A. E. W. Mason

... coming to Orleans is interpolated; and the interpolator was so unskilful as to date Jeanne's arrival at Chinon in the month of February, while it took place on March 6, and to assign Thursday, March 10, as the date of the departure from Blois, which did not occur until the end of April. The diary from April 28 to May 7 is less inaccurate in its chronology, and the errors in dates which do occur may be attributed to the copyist. But the facts to which these dates ...

— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France

... the apostles returned to Jerusalem, there to await the coming of the Comforter. The Lord's ascension was accomplished; it was as truly a literal departure of a material Being as His resurrection had been an actual return of His spirit to His own corporeal body, theretofore dead. With the world abode and yet abides the glorious promise, that Jesus the Christ, the same Being who ascended from Olivet in His immortalized ...

— Jesus the Christ - A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy - Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern • James Edward Talmage

... package to Colonel Witham, who took it with trembling hand. Then Henry Burns and his friends made a hurried departure. By the time the colonel had made an examination of the papers, and had turned, white with anger, to vent his rage upon them, they ...

— The Rival Campers Ashore - The Mystery of the Mill • Ruel Perley Smith

... this, may be mournful over the aching of another heart while yet it lasts; and he who looks for his own death as his resurrection, may yet be sorrowful at every pale sunset that reminds him of the departure of the ...

— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald

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