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Word Meanings - DETACHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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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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    Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
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    To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
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    1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
  • PARTICIPANT
    Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.
  • PARTLY
    In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
  • PARTNER
    An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
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    Divisional.
  • DISCONNECTION
    The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union. Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • PARTITE
    Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
  • PARTIALISM
    Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
  • PARTURIFACIENT
    A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.
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    1. A covering for the neck, and sometimes for the shoulders and breast; originally worn by both sexes, but laterby women alone; a ruff. Fuller. 2. A hen; -- so called from the ruffing of her neck feathers. "Dame Partlett, the hen." Shak.
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    1. The act or state of participating, or sharing in common with others; as, a participation in joy or sorrows. These deities are so by participation. Bp. Stillingfleet. What an honor, that God should admit us into such a blessed participation of
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    1. The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind. 2. A predilection or inclination to one thing rather than to others; special taste or liking;
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    1. Division; the act of dividing or sharing. Fuller. 2. Part; portion; share. Ford.
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    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
  • PARTURE
    Departure. Spenser.
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    Divisible into three parts.
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    Wrong division.
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    Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
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    A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
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    An outlying part. Ayliffe.

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