dissoluble
Americanadjective
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capable of being dissolved.
tablets dissoluble in water.
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capable of being destroyed, as through disintegration or decomposition.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of dissoluble
1525–35; < Latin dissolūbilis, equivalent to dissolū-, stem of dissolvere to dissolve + -bilis -ble. See dis- 1, soluble
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But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Women held a very high position, and the marriage tie was very free, so as to be practically, it would appear, dissoluble by mutual consent.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
The Greek Church holds that marriage is dissoluble in case of adultery, but not till a probationary period has elapsed during which a bishop or priest mediates with a view to reconciliation.
From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Hyacinthe Ringrose
The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes, without injury, by the adamant of Shakspeare.”
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by John Mackay Wilson
The Sumerian laws seem to regard the marriage-tie as dissoluble on the part of the man by an act of simple repudiation, accompanied by a solatium, fixed at half a mina.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
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