De*tach"ment (?), n.
[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.
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