dissever
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But the check is for a time—the gap and chasm does not dissever.
From Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. by Church, R. W. (Richard William)
To dissever them without injury to the written spaces was by no means easy.
From Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 by Brown, Charles Brockden
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
We are not, however, entitled, on this account, to dissever his prophecies, and to assign particular discourses to the reign of each of these kings.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Hengstenberg, Ernst Wilhelm
Secrecy and guilt go so perpetually together, that it is almost difficult for the mind to dissever them.
From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
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