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- noun Plural form of
disunion .
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Examples
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Property law can help as long as we note unions and disunions between the fields.
Cultural Environmentalism at 10: Molly van Houweling Rebecca Tushnet 2006
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But if happiness be the object of morality, of all human unions and disunions; if the worthiness of every action is to be estimated by the quantity of pleasurable sensation it is calculated to produce, then the connection of the sexes is so long sacred as it contributes to the comfort of the parties, and is naturally dissolved when its evils are greater than its benefits.
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This day had begun and now ended with Hood participating in disunions.
Mission Of Honor Clancy, Tom 2002
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I believe this error to be a source of many evils, to be the very spring of our disunions ...
The Price of Unity 1973
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It is obvious that abnormal unions or disunions, suppressions, hypertrophies, &c., are very liable to bring about or to be accompanied with changes in the position, either of the parts directly affected or of adjoining organs.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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The acquisition of family dignity by those that have it not, the loss of family dignity by those that have it, unions and disunions, -- these all are noticeable by those that lead deathless lives.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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O Vrikodara, disunions and disputes do take place amongst those that are connected in blood.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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La Guayra, the chief port of the State of Venezuela, from whence the whole export of coffee in the year 1789 was not more than ten tons; and of late years from that port alone, and in spite of the internal disunions of the country, it has reached the enormous quantity of
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I believe this error to be a source of many evils, to be the very spring of our disunions.
A United Canada 1919
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This disunion in her spirit does what all such disunions do, -- it predisposes her to a breakdown.
The Nervous Housewife Abraham Myerson 1914
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