disseveration
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a word derived from
dissever.
disseververb (used with object)to sever; separate.
Example Sentences
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They had been made one flesh and one bone, for better and worse, thirty years since; and now in her latter days she could not put up with disseveration and dislocation.
From Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope
The troubles which gave rise to the disseveration of England from America had already commenced, which broke out the ensuing spring into actual hostilities.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Amelia Stratton Comfield