Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Division; distribution; partition.
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- noun obsolete
Separation . - noun obsolete
Departure . - verb transitive To remove the
partitions from; to merge back into a single unit.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus was all the court troubled for the love of the departition of those knights.
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My lord Arthur, said Launcelot, ye put upon me that I should be cause of his departition; God knoweth it was against my will.
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I have loved them as well as my life, wherefore it shall grieve me right sore, the departition of this fellowship: for I have had an old custom to have them in my fellowship.
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Thus was all the court troubled for the love of the departition of those knights.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And so it forthinketh me a little, for I have loved them as well as my life, wherefore it shall grieve me right sore, the departition of this fellowship: for I have had an old custom to have them in my fellowship.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart
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And so it forethinketh me a little, for I have loved them as well as my life, wherefore it shall grieve me right sore the departition of this fellowship.
MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous
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Thus was all the court troubled for the love of the departition of those knights.
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And so it forthinketh me a little, for I have loved them as well as my life, wherefore it shall grieve me right sore, the departition of this fellowship: for I have had an old custom to have them in my fellowship.
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My lord Arthur, said Launcelot, ye put upon me that I should be cause of his departition; God knoweth it was against my will.
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Thus was all the court troubled for the love of the departition of those knights.
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