Both Uses
detach
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
(Edited)
- Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.
p. 126.4detached = emotionally uninvolved
- Atticus's voice had lost its comfortableness; he was speaking in his arid, detached professional voice.
p. 210.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(detach) to separate something from something else (physically or emotionally)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)