disseverance
Example Sentences
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He advocated strongly the disseverance of the Union, so that the country to which he belonged might have hands clean from the taint of slavery.
From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony
But she did not the less feel how terrible would be the effect of any disseverance from Lady Lufton.
From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony
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 Leyland, Francis A.
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 Trollope, Anthony
The want of harmony in taste, feeling and character, is no reason for disseverance.
From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
