2. Adjective. that is leaving ¹
3. Adjective. while leaving ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Departing
1. depart [v] - See also: depart
Lexicographical Neighbors of Departing
Literary usage of Departing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"Proceedings in Parliament against JAMES Earl of SALISBURY, and HENRY Earl of
PETERBOROUGH, on .an Impeachment of High Treason, " For departing from their ..."
2. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"overwhelming is the dropped behind many were the imprecations and cries VII.
their departing comrades and follow as far as they could, 3.0.413. ..."
3. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"So he met at the departing of the two ways two knights that led Lionel, his
brother, all naked, bounden upon a strong hackney, and his hands bounden to-fore ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England: from the Norman conquest by Agnes Strickland (1848)
"When departing, the lord-chancellor and his company went down into the court-yard
and waited a few minutes, while search was made for one of the chaplains, ..."
5. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Edward Burton (1847)
"Again, he, whose coming depended upon the Son's departing, and his sending after
his departure, cannot be the Son, who therefore departed that he might send ..."
6. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"“Indeed,” said Adeimantus, “in departing thus from life he will have done a most
important ser- 49' vice.” ‘-‘Yes,” I answered, “but not the greatest ..."
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