Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which produces a divorce or separation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The person or cause that produces or effects a divorce.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person or cause that produces or effects a
divorce .
Etymologies
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Examples
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How is NOT being a lobbyist less damaging, in a run for the WH, than being a serial divorcer and disgraced Speaker of the House?
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Unfortunately, although Larry seems to be keeping his head above water in his personal life -- serial divorcer having become a kind of alternative lifestyle now rather than a traumatizing aberration -- things have gone suddenly sour for his nightly talk show, "Larry King Live."
Tom Shales on TV: Is Larry King's CNN reign nearing its end? Tom Shales 2010
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I hope that this marriage lasts her fiance is a double-divorcer, just recently annulled.
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Peut-etre qu'il aura enfin ce tilt que ma soeur et moi on attend depuis 22 et 26 ans!! c'est vrai ca apres tout c pas de moi qu'elle doit divorcer mais de lui!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Weller had been presiding over Mack ` s divorcer, soon after the body of Mack ` s wife, Charla, was found stabbed to death.
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Internet est un outil formidable d'échange entre professsionnels (tout ce qui passe par le courrier électronique, les listes de diffusion et les forums) mais qui est un consommateur de temps très dangereux: on a vite fait si l'on n'y prend garde de divorcer et de mettre ses enfants à la DASS (Direction de l'aide sanitaire et sociale).
Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert
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Marriage is often the great divorcer of such friendships, and circumstances generally, which sever and estrange; because, unless there is a constant interchange of thought and ideas, increasing age tends to emphasise differences.
At Large Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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"Talák bi'l-Salásah" = a triple divorce which cannot be revoked; nor can the divorcer re-marry the same woman till after consummation with another husband.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Land and sea, weakness and decline, are great separators, but Death is the great divorcer forever.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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They wouldn't necessarily stay with the respondent - if the respondent did something wrong like abuse the children, custody could go to the divorcer - but there would be the presumption that the respondent is innocent of wrongdoing and should retain custody.
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