dissever
verb (used with object)
to sever; separate.
disseverance
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a word derived from
dissever.
Example Sentences
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To examine thoroughly the cause of this disseverance from actuality which haunted the pastoral throughout its many transformations would lead us beyond all possible bounds of this inquiry.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
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 a bishop and his clergy.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
That I was born, alas! that me is woe, That day of us must make disseverance!
From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves
He advocated strongly the disseverance of the Union, so that the country to which he belonged might have hands clean from the taint of slavery.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
But she did not the less feel how terrible would be the effect of any disseverance from Lady Lufton.
From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope
