disseverance
Example Sentences
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The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey
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
Some of these gentlemen pleaded their cause so well that they almost made it appear that episcopal ascendancy would be restored in England by the disseverance of the Church and State.
From Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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
I object, sir, to this disseverance between the sexes, and I object to the Senate of the United States giving its sanction in advance or in any way to this character of legislation.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton