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  • verb Present participle of disjoin.

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Examples

  • Her pace, therefore, is an odd, disjointed and disjoining, sort of movement that is rather disagreeable at first, but you soon grow reconciled to it.

    Eothen 2003

  • The part of a contradiction which conjoins a predicate with a subject is an affirmation; the part disjoining them is a negation.

    Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002

  • There are no means of combining these benefits except by separating the functions which guarantee the one from those which essentially require the other; by disjoining the office of control and criticism from the actual conduct of affairs, and devolving the former on the representatives of the Many, while securing for the latter, under strict responsibility to the nation, the acquired knowledge and practised intelligence of a specially trained and experienced Few.

    Representative Government 2002

  • Duty and God, morality and religion, are inseparable principles; all the efforts of a false philosophy have never succeeded, and never will succeed, in disjoining them.

    The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism Ernest Naville

  • So slight a thing as the disjoining of hands may break the rules.

    Preliminary Report of the Commission Appointed by the University of Pennsylvania to Investigate Modern Spiritualism In Accordance with the Request of the Late Henry Seybert The Seybert Commission

  • Stopping short with a curtsey at the conclusion and disjoining hands, they stand, and imitating the process of hand-washing, they sing: --

    Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

  • Patanjali refers a second time to the life-control or KRIYA technique thus: “Liberation can be accomplished by that PRANAYAMA which is attained by disjoining the course of inspiration and expiration.”

    Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935

  • Patanjali refers a second time to the life-control or KRIYA technique thus: "Liberation can be accomplished by that PRANAYAMA which is attained by disjoining the course of inspiration and expiration."

    Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922

  • The nation is not a mass of independent individuals, but of related individuals, who, moreover, are so closely related that they make together an indivisible organism; this organism develops according to orderly laws; this organism has perpetuity, never disjoining itself either from its past or future; and this organism has also self-consciousness and moral personality.

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Various 1888

  • His eyes were darkest blue, the eyebrows and long disjoining eyelashes being very dark over them, which made their colour precious.

    Vittoria — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

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