Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Separated by legal decree from the bonds of matrimony; repudiated by a formal act of divorce.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective having a marriage legally terminated and having not remarried.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
cut off, orseparated - adjective of a marriage
legally dissolved - adjective having had one's
marriage legally dissolved - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
divorce .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of someone whose marriage has been legally dissolved
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Examples
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For a time, Pearly said, Frank was out in Greenville, a suburb of Grand Rapids, helping what she described as a divorced woman with a bunch of children on a farm.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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For a time, Pearly said, Frank was out in Greenville, a suburb of Grand Rapids, helping what she described as a divorced woman with a bunch of children on a farm.
The Sins of Brother Curtis Lisa Davis 2011
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Why would our constitution even worry about government establishment of religion if the founders saw "religion" as a term divorced from any spiritual truth?
The Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission | All Articles 2009
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Then at least our space-junk wouldn't be completely divorced from the important cultural life of our world.
Archive 2009-02-01 Heather McDougal 2009
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Then at least our space-junk wouldn't be completely divorced from the important cultural life of our world.
Lunokhod and the Art of Space Heather McDougal 2009
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Let it be a completely legal state divorced from the concept of sex for any reason.
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Let ‘marriage’ return to a religious ceremony that individual churches can perform and let the tax and legal benefits of those marriages become divorced from the religious aspect.
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If mans suggestion is divorced from a divine Spirit it becomes as invalid as a alternative tools of man.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Let ‘marriage’ return to a religious ceremony that individual churches can perform and let the tax and legal benefits of those marriages become divorced from the religious aspect.
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Let ‘marriage’ return to a religious ceremony that individual churches can perform and let the tax and legal benefits of those marriages become divorced from the religious aspect.
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