Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of dissevering; disseverance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Disseverance.

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  • noun disseverance

Etymologies

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Compare Old French dessevrement.

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Examples

  • Despite the disseverment by the Canadian Embassy on Thursday, the Clinton campaign issued a press release headlined "NAFTA-Gate: False Denials from the Obama Campaign."

    Lecia Shorter: Clinton's NAFTA Attack Against Obama Is Unfounded 2008

  • What, but its subversion, its disseverment, by its own internal antagonism?

    The Right of American Slavery

  • This he was determined to spare her; so, to those of his company in whom he could confide, and who were themselves ripe for any project that would tend to their total disseverment from the flag they so detested, he cautiously communicated his intentions, finding, in return, that more than one of them were on the eve of trying their fortune in the same manner.

    Ridgeway An Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada Scian Dubh 1855

  • He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering -- and oh! with agony I thought of what I left.

    Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II. 1848

  • She was at the same time suffering disseverment at her own hands through her intestine divisions and the mutual jealousy of her chiefs.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

  • "The devil take all halves and quarters!" said the Captain; "were it in my option, I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar, than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels."

    A Legend of Montrose Walter Scott 1801

  • “were it in my option, I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar, than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels.”

    A Legend of Montrose 2008

  • ` ` were it in my option, I could no more consent to the halving of that dollar, than the woman in the Judgment of Solomon to the disseverment of the child of her bowels. ''

    A Legend of Montrose 1871

  • Besides, it is an understood thing that the addition of gunpowder renders picrate far more effective in blasting such rocks as this, as then the violence of the picrate prepares the way for the powder which, slower in its action, will complete the disseverment of the basalt.”

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 2003

  • Besides, it is an understood thing that the addition of gunpowder renders picrate far more effective in blasting such rocks as this, as then the violence of the picrate prepares the way for the powder which, slower in its action, will complete the disseverment of the basalt. "

    The Survivors of the Chancellor 1911

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