Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of dissevering, or the state of being dissevered; separation.

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

  • noun The act of disserving; separation.

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  • noun The act of dissevering; separation.

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Examples

  • Presbyterianism in another, and Universalism in a third; while between the Northern and Southern States there is as wide a difference as between England and Russia — a difference stamped on the very soil itself, and which, in the opinion of some, threatens a disseverance of the Union.

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • Some of these gentlemen pleaded their cause so well that they almost made it appear that episcopal ascendancy would be restored in England by the disseverance of the Church and State.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • They did hate each other, and this hatred had, at one time, almost produced an absolute disseverance of even the courtesies which are so necessary between the bishop and his clergy.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • But she did not the less feel how terrible would be the effect of any disseverance from Lady Lufton.

    Framley Parsonage 2004

  • Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • Her most famous statement was a declaration of total disseverance, a rejection of all bonding.

    ON THE EVE OF THE MILLENNIUM CONOR CRUISE O’BRIEN 1994

  • The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

    The Symbolism of Freemasonry Albert G. Mackey

  • Chatham next touched on the great question of disseverance and independence.

    The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

  • This disseverance into millions of human beings is that each may realize God in himself.

    Four-Dimensional Vistas Claude Fayette Bragdon 1906

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