Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word disjointure.

Examples

  • Out of these conditions, by a curious evolution, had grown a new life, which she vainly tried to graft upon the old without apparent disjointure.

    Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

  • Out of these conditions, by a curious evolution, had grown a new life, which she vainly tried to graft upon the old without apparent disjointure.

    Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871

  • "I don't know quite what to do about the disjointure, though.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • There was never a kindlier, more hospitable, or more religious people on the footstool, than those of Verdenton; only they were kind according to their notion, as everybody else is; hospitable according to custom, like the rest of the world; and religious according to education and tradition, as are other people: and the disjointure of opinion between them and the Yankee schoolmarms was all because the latter wanted to measure them by Northern ideas of these virtues, instead of accepting those they found there.

    A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools 1879

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.