Departure
[dɪ'pɑːtʃə] or [dɪ'pɑrtʃɚ]
Definition
(n.) Division; separation; putting away.
(n.) Separation or removal from a place; the act or process of departing or going away.
(n.) Removal from the present life; death; decease.
(n.) Deviation or abandonment, as from or of a rule or course of action, a plan, or a purpose.
(n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another.
(n.) The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.
Inputed by Gerard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Withdrawal, exit, recession, retirement, removal.[2]. Death, decease, demise.
Typed by Felix
Examples
- A departure was early made in the matter of strengthening the ribs of oak to better meet the strains from the rough seas. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- And what can have urged you to so sudden a departure? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nay, pardon me, he replied; I have no right to command or reproach; but my life hangs on your departure and speedy return. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The hour for my departure was now drawing near. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I saw her, and anger, and hate, and injustice died at her bier, giving place at their departure to a remorse (Great God, that I should feel it! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The promised departure was all that Fanny could think of with much satisfaction. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- There was no promise of a speedy departure in his composed bearing and his comfortable attitude. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He should not have planned such an absence--he should not have left home for a week, when her own departure from Mansfield was so near. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Soon after the departure of my protégée, my servant brought me a letter, by the twopenny post; the handwriting was Lord Ponsonby's. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Thus we went on till the ship (whose departure, too, had been several times postponed) was on the point of sailing. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Fanny beckoned her mother out of the room, and told her something that made her equally anxious with Margaret for the departure of the latter. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- His only hope was to plead again with May, and on the day before his departure he walked with her to the ruinous garden of the Spanish Mission. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There has never been the least departure from the strict line of fact. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- And he proceeded to inform us that his departure from England was now definitively fixed for the ensuing year. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Edited by Eileen