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  • verb Present participle of dissever.

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Examples

  • She is well dissevering of her Oscar nomination here.

    JUNO | Obsessed With Film 2008

  • Over the fathomless grey seas that tossed between, dissevering the ancient and gigantic continent from the tiny motherland, unsettling rumours ran.

    Australia Felix 2003

  • And backward mutters of dissevering power, 'it is not possible to disenchant his spell-bound prisoners.

    The Superstitions of Witchcraft Howard Williams

  • Such friendships are to be effaced by the suspension of intercourse, and, as I have heard Cato say, to be unstitched rather than cut asunder, unless some quite intolerable offence flames out to full view, so that it can be neither right nor honorable not to effect an immediate separation and dissevering.

    De Amicitia, Scipio's Dream Marcus Tullius Cicero

  • First Lagus meets him, drawn thither by malign destiny; him, as he tugs at a ponderous stone, hurling his spear where the spine ran dissevering the ribs, he pierces and wrenches out the spear where it stuck fast in the bone.

    The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

  • Incontinently one came after another, dissevering and dividing the graine, and after that they had put each kinde of corne in order, they ranne away againe in all haste.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • Let it be remembered, that we hold, not only the mouth of the Mississippi, its great city, the whole of the west bank of that imperial river, but all the east bank, except two points, thus dissevering Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas from the rest of the South.

    Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • From the windows of her eyes turning off the lights; from the engines of her powers cutting off its forces; drawing the furnaces; dissevering the contacts.

    If Winter Comes 1925

  • Horse and rider had nearly all reached the tail end of the caravan, united as one, when on the instant came a halt which came near dissevering their mutually repugnant and enforced connection.

    Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more, 1906

  • This is not two reasons but only one; God has joined together marriage in his primative instituting of it, that is, by his creative will, which established the essence of marriage to consist in the fact that the two consorts should be one flesh, one single absolutely inseparable life as to soul and body, even as every living body is a single inseparable whole, and any dissevering of it, the death of the same.

    Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873

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