disjoining

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Dialectic is the correct joining and disjoining of Ideas.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

The islanders of the South Sea are not singular then, in mentally disjoining official dignity from moral excellence.--E.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Kerr, Robert

The Gospels, the Epistles, and the Apocalypse, exhibits the sum of the contents of the New.—There is no disjoining the Law from the Gospel.

From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William

Number, measure, separateness, contact, and disjoining, the quality of belonging to a higher or lower class, action, all these as they abide in things possessing colour are visible to the eye.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

Her pace, therefore, is an odd, disjointed and disjoining, sort of movement that is rather disagreeable at first, but you soon grow reconciled to it. 

From Eothen, or, Traces of Travel Brought Home from the East by Kinglake, Alexander William