DETACHMENT

detachment. Detachment, n. a party sent off

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De‐tach″ment (?), n. [[Cf. F. détachement.]] 1. 1. The act of detaching or separating, or the state of being detached.
2. 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. 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.