Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Complete separation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or process of divorcing; divorce.

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

  • noun Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun figuratively, psychology Complete detachment or disunion.
  • noun obsolete divorce

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the legal dissolution of a marriage

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Examples

  • Here the divorcement from the soil is as apparent as in every other agricultural line in England.

    HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010

  • Here the divorcement from the soil is as apparent as in every other agricultural line in England.

    Hops and Hoppers 1903

  • So far has the divorcement of the worker from the soil proceeded, that the farming districts, the civilised world over, are dependent upon the cities for the gathering of the harvests.

    HOPS AND HOPPERS 2010

  • In not a single case did the petition for a writ of divorcement include an allegation that either the underlying or ancillary issue was traceable to some geographic proximity to a same-sex couple that the divorcing couple suffered.

    Printing: Justice Itself on Trial 2010

  • In not a single case did the petition for a writ of divorcement include an allegation that either the underlying or ancillary issue was traceable to some geographic proximity to a same-sex couple that the divorcing couple suffered.

    Justice Itself on Trial 2010

  • Mister Data and Ms. Lal are two of a kind, and the lack of security issues with respect to his freedom and to his divorcement from Starfleet demonstrate that such would be the case with his daughter.

    Star Trek: Myriad Universes: Shattered Light David R. George III 2010

  • I was in bad humor for a variety of reasons: that summer I had divorcement process, I was only 22 ... all my extreme youth was spoiled by that marriage ...

    main erogenous zone of all women. Mata 2010

  • They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of divorcement, and to put her away?

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • This court has declared hundreds of Jewish marriages void, issued bills of divorcement in place of the husbands and has even married those freed women to other Jewish men.

    Divorce: The Halakhic Perspective. 2009

  • She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her and sends her away from his house.

    Divorce: The Halakhic Perspective. 2009

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