Noun

(en noun)

The act of departing or something that has departed.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=5 citation , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}

* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=April 10, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport

, title= Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle , passage=Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure .}}

A deviation from a plan or procedure.

* Prescott

any departure from a national standard

(euphemism) A death.

* Bible, 2 Tim. iv. 6

The time of my departure is at hand.

* Sir Philip Sidney

His timely departure barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

(navigation) The distance due east or west made by a ship in its course reckoned in plane sailing as the product of the distance sailed and the sine of the angle made by the course with the meridian.

(legal) 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)

(obsolete) Division; separation; putting away.

* Milton

no other remedy but absolute departure

Noun

(en-noun)

A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away.

* (rfdate) (w) 2:12

Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence .

Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendance; deficiency.

* (rfdate) - Kent

In the absence of conventional law.

Lack; deficiency; nonexistence.

Inattention to things present; abstraction (of mind).

* (rfdate), (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

Reflecting on the little absences and distractions of mankind.

* 1824-1829? , (w), (Imaginary Conversations)

To conquer that abstraction which is called absence .

(medical) Temporary loss or disruption of consciousness, with sudden onset and recovery, and common in epilepsy.

(fencing) Lack of contact between blades.