disseverance

Example Sentences

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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)

That I was born, alas! that me is woe, That day of us must make disseverance!

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing

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

This disseverance into millions of human beings is that each may realize God in himself.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

To examine thoroughly the cause of this disseverance from actuality which haunted the pastoral throughout its many transformations would lead us beyond all possible bounds of this inquiry.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.