Definitions
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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
divorce .
Etymologies
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divorce + -eth
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Examples
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This opinion is commonest in the country-towns and villages; and my mother’s relations are thus distinguished; so that a woman of them, when her husband dieth or divorceth her while she is young, passeth in widowhood her life, however long it may be, and disdaineth to marry a second time.
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This opinion is commonest in the country-towns and villages; and my mother's relations are thus distinguished; so that a woman of them, when her husband dieth or divorceth her while she is young, passeth in widowhood her life, however long it may be, and disdaineth to marry a second time. "
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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