DEPARTURE, n.
1. The act of going away a moving from or leaving a place as a departure from London.
2. Death decease removal from the present life.
The time of my departure is at hand. 2 Timothy 4 .
3. A forsaking abandonment as a departure from evil.
4. A desisting as a departure from a purpose.
5. Ruin destruction. Ezekiel 26 .
6. A deviation from the title or defense in pleading.
7. In navigation, the distance of two places on the same parallel, counted in miles of the equator.
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