disseverance
Example Sentences
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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
Accompanying the dead in its watery wanderings, he sees, with keen sympathy, its utter disseverance from the world it has left, and contrasts with its condition the hopeless sorrow of his own disappointed youth.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
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
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
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
