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| Detachment (De*tach"ment) (?), n. [Cf. F. détachement.] 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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