disengagementn.
/dɪsɪnˈɡeɪdʒmənt/ a. The action of disengaging or fact of being disengaged from (anything).
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > detachment or non-participation > action of
dissociation1611
disengagement1650
upon the shun1823
non-participation1832
self-dissociation1893
opting-out1924
1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 378 They call poverty a dis-ingagement from uselesse things.
1699 H. Chandler Effort against Biggotry (1709) 6 Their Believing in Christ was no Disingagement from Judaism.
1716 J. Collier tr. Gregory of Nazianzus Panegyrick upon Maccabees Pref. A noble Disengagement from the World.
1887 R. Garnett in Lowell My Study Windows Introd. 12 He has not that disengagement from all traditional and conventional influences..which characterises younger men.
b. The physical, esp. chemical, separation or setting free (of anything).
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [noun]
asunderingeOE
sheddingc1175
twinning?c1225
departingc1300
sunderinga1325
to-dighting1340
partingc1350
disseverancec1374
divisionc1374
severinga1382
departitionc1400
separation1413
sunderance1435
departisonc1440
deceperationa1450
severance1467
dissevering1488
dissever?1507
departurec1515
dividing1526
partition1530
sejunction1532
separatinga1557
sequestration1567
decision1574
divorce1593
disseveration16..
dissevermenta1603
sunderment1603
disparting1611
disunition1611
singling1625
divide1642
severation1649
concisure1656
department1677
secretion1696
abgregation1730
disengagement1791
disassociation1825
dispartment1869
dissociation1877
secernment1894
breakaway1897
delinkage1973
1791 W. Nicholson tr. J. A. C. Chaptal Elements Chem. III. iv. iii. 113 The disengagement of a considerable quantity of nitrous gas.
1842 T. De Quincey in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 138 The restoration and disengagement of the public buildings surmounting the city.
1881 Nature 28 Apr. 616/1 The gaseous acids are absorbed..with disengagement of heat.
c. Freedom from engagement, prepossession, occupation, or ties; detachment; freedom or ease of manner or behaviour.
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society > morality > virtue > morally elevated quality > [noun] > detachment from worldly concerns
disengagement1702
unworldliness1803
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > freedom from obligation
disobligation1620
disobligement1649
unbeholdenness1674
disengagedness1685
disengagement1702
1702 R. Steele Funeral iii. 38 Oh! Madam! your Air—!The Negligence, the Disengagement of your Manner!
1710 Brit. Apollo 20–22 Sept. Thus you by Disingagement Conquer more, Than all your Sex by Servile Laws before.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 14. ⁋4 A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement.
1768 Woman of Honor II. 182 I appeared with all the freedom and dis-ingagement of a simple spectator.
1866 J. F. Ferrier Lect. Greek Philos. I. x. 241 This mental disengagement..and liberation.
d. The dissolution of an engagement to be married.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun] > dissolution of betrothal
disengagement1811
1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. vii. 109 She might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement..as an escape from..evils. View more context for this quotation
1895 Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 8/1 ‘Disengagement’ is a pleasing euphemism for a gentle form of ‘breach of promise’.
e. Fencing. (See disengage v. 4.)
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > actions
buttc1330
overheadc1400
stopc1450
quarter-strokea1456
rabbeta1500
rakea1500
traverse1547
flourish1552
quarter-blow1555
veny1578
alarm1579
venue1591
cut1593
time1594
caricado1595
fincture1595
imbroccata1595
mandritta1595
punta riversa1595
remove1595
stramazon1595
traversa1595
imbrocado1597
passado1597
counter-time1598
foinery1598
canvasado1601
montant1601
punto1601
stock1602
embrocadoc1604
pass1604
stuck1604
stramazo1606
home thrust1622
longee1625
falsify?1635
false1637
traversion1637
canvassa1641
parade1652
flanconade1664
parry1673
fore-stroke1674
allonge1675
contretemps1684
counter1684
disengaging1684
feint1684
passing1687
under-counter1687
stringere1688
stringering1688
tempo1688
volte1688
overlapping1692
repost1692
volt-coupe1692
volting1692
disarm?1700
stamp1705
passade1706
riposte1707
swoop1711
retreat1734
lunge1748
beat1753
disengage1771
disengagement1771
opposition1771
time thrust1771
timing1771
whip1771
shifting1793
one-two1809
one-two-three1809
salute1809
estramazone1820
remise1823
engage1833
engaging1833
risposta1838
lunging1847
moulinet1861
reprise1861
stop-thrust1861
engagement1881
coupé1889
scrape1889
time attack1889
traverse1892
cut-over1897
tac-au-tac riposte1907
flèche1928
replacement1933
punta dritta1961
1771 J. Olivier Fencing (1780) 38 Of the Disengagement.
1809 J. Roland Amateur of Fencing 65 The side on which it was usual to parry the disengagement.
1889 W. H. Pollock et al. Fencing (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) ii. 48 Simple attacks are..four: the straight thrust, the disengagement, the coupé, and the counter-disengagement.
f. A withdrawal of military forces; a renunciation of military or political influence in a particular area.
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1957 Economist 28 Dec. 1113/2 Even if..the sun shines brightly on the hopes of disengagement and..the troops can be pulled back from their forward positions, [etc.].
1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 192/3 A policy of disengagement in Central Europe.
1958 Observer 23 Feb. 5/3 Topic No. 1..was ‘Disengagement’, by which was meant some plan whereby Russian and American troops would withdraw from the 1945 armistice line in Europe.
1966 U. Schwarz & L. Hadik Strategic Terminol. 66 Disengagement, design for diminishing international tensions by creating a neutral or demilitarized zone between the armed forces of two antagonistic powers or groups of states.
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