Departure

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. Division; separation; putting away. [Obs.] No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.

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

3. Removal from the present life; death; decease. The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Tim. iv. 6. His timely departure . . . barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries. Sir P. Sidney.

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. Prescott.

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

6. The distance due east or west which a person or ship passes over in going along an oblique line.

Synonyms: Death; demise; release. See Death.