dissever
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This is not the type of anecdote which looms large in the volumes of "minced saints" prepared for pious readers, and its absence has accustomed us to dissever humour from sanctity.
From Americans and Others by Repplier, Agnes
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)
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
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 2
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