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disengagement|dɪsɪnˈgeɪdʒmənt|
[f. disengage v. + -ment, after engagement; cf. F. désengagement (15th c.)]
a. The action of disengaging or fact of being disengaged from (anything).
1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man become Guilty 378 They call poverty a dis-ingagement from uselesse things. 1699H. Chandler Bigotry (1709) 6 Their Believing in Christ was no Disingagement from Judaism. 1716Jer. Collier tr. Nazianzen's Panegyrick Pref., A noble Disengagement from the World. 1887R. Garnett in Lowell Study Wind. 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).
1791W. Nicholson tr. Chaptal's Elem. Chem. (1800) III. 113 The disengagement of a considerable quantity of nitrous gas. 1842De Quincey in Blackw. Mag. LII. 138 The restoration and disengagement of the public buildings surmounting the city. 1881Nature XXIII. 616 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.
1701Steele Funeral iii. i. (1702) 38 Oh, Madam! your Air!..The Negligence, the Disengagement of your Manner. 1710Brit. Apollo III. No. 77. 3/1 Thus you by Disingagement Conquer more, Than all your Sex by Servile Laws before. 1750Johnson Rambler No. 14 ⁋4 A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement. 1768Woman of Honor II. 182, I appeared with all the freedom and dis-ingagement of a simple spectator. 1866Ferrier Grk. Philos. I. x. 241 This mental disengagement..and liberation.
d. The dissolution of an engagement to be married.
1796Jane Austen Sense & Sens. xxix, She might wound Marianne still deeper by treating their disengagement..as an escape from..evils. 1895Westm. Gaz. 7 Feb. 8/1 ‘Disengagement’ is a pleasing euphemism for a gentle form of ‘breach of promise’.
e. Fencing. (See disengage v. 4.)
1771Olivier Fencing Famil. (1780) 38 Of the Disengagement. 1809Roland Fencing 65 The side on which it was usual to parry the disengagement. 1889W. H. Pollock, etc., Fencing (Badm. Libr.) 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.
1957Economist 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.]. 1958Spectator 14 Feb. 192/3 A policy of disengagement in Central Europe. 1958Observer 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. 1966Schwarz & Hadik Strategic Terminology 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. |