dissoluble

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But no one found the words thoughtless or untrue, for Beth still seemed among them, a peaceful presence, invisible, but dearer than ever, since death could not break the household league that love made dissoluble.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

Marriage must be made dissoluble, because, while divorce was impossible, indissoluble unions meant misery for many men and women.

From A Short History of English Liberalism by Blease, Walter Lyon

Even this imperfect and dissoluble connection has been but little attended to.

From To Cuba and Back by Dana, Richard Henry

Awhile, because you are gifted with agility and strength, you fancy that you live: but frail is the "bower of flesh" that encaskets life; dissoluble the silver cord than binds you to it.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Women held a very high position, and the marriage tie was very free, so as to be practically, it would appear, dissoluble by mutual consent.

From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Ellis, Havelock