divorce
noun
the act of legally ending a marriage.
divorcer
-
a word derived from
divorce.
Example Sentences
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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.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
Since then the old divorcer has been busy.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb
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.
From At Large by Arthur Christopher Benson
Land and sea, weakness and decline, are great separators; but death is the great divorcer for ever.
From Life of John Keats by William Michael Rossetti
Land and sea, weakness and decline, are great separators, but Death is the great divorcer forever.
From Among My Books Second Series by James Russell Lowell
