dissever

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They are now indeed a peaceful people; severe as are the hardships of their condition, they are, in the main, contented with it; and nothing short of necessity can dissever them from their dear mountains.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John

For though he was the enemy of my race and my country, yet I loved him with such a love that nothing could dissever my heart from him.

From The Great Captain: A Story of the Days of Sir Walter Raleigh by Tynan, Katharine

To open the mind to unreserved communication, is imbecility; to cover it with a vail, to dissever its internal workings from its external manifestations, is dissimulation and falsehood.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

The flesh does not conjoin, but dissever; although through its very severance it suggests a shadow of the union which it cannot bestow.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn