Definition of "departure"

The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running: “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”

1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎

But the outstanding feature of the new timetable arrangement, additional to the standardised departure times, is the number of intermediate points, in addition to such principal cities as Bristol, Plymouth, Cardiff and Birmingham, that now have departures for Paddington at the same minutes past the hour throughout the day.

1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Western Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 590

Villa spent most of the second period probing from wide areas and had a succession of corners but despite their profligacy they will be glad to overturn the 6-0 hammering they suffered at St James' Park in August following former boss Martin O'Neill's departure.

2011 April 10, Alistair Magowan, “Aston Villa 1-0 Newcastle”, in BBC Sport

any departure from a national standard

1855–1858, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain, volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson, and Company

The time of my departure is at hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 2 Timothy 4:6

His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912,

no other remedy […] but absolute departure

1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.]