01 n. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
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The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
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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.
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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.