dissever

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Yet it is grievous to think, that in some instances a difference, which extended no further than to the outward polity of the Church, could dissever and almost alienate those whom grace had made one.

From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown

The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever!

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Mistress Hutchinson thus helped to dissever Church and State, and to found religious freedom in the United States.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

So the man was able to dissever the ghastly head and thus to slay the monstrous dragon.

From Tales of Fantasy and Fact by Matthews, Brander