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breaking off
noun as in alienation
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His heart is set on our marriage—there will be great difficulty, I fear, in reconciling him to the breaking-off of the engagement.
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From the first he had blamed himself for the breaking-off of her engagement with Derek.
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This breaking-off in speech was something quite new in Felix.
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But breaking-off this parley would mean that he had burnt his boats.
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But try breaking-off with love when you want it most, when its fairest, most devilishly alive.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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