dissever
Example Sentences
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But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.
From Ancestors A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
We are not, however, entitled, on this account, to dissever his prophecies, and to assign particular discourses to the reign of each of these kings.
From Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg
Its reign is almost over; its powers to dissever and destroy are now being rapidly eliminated from a Constitution whose basic meaning is justice, equality, and love.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
But all her childish reasoning could not dissever the two.
From Olive A Novel by G. Bowers
Vocabulary lists containing dissever
Selection Vocabulary 1, Unit 2
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Selection Vocabulary 4, Unit 1
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