disseverance
Example Sentences
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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
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 T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
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
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 Anthony Trollope
