disseverance
Example Sentences
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He advocated strongly the disseverance of the Union, so that the country to which he belonged might have hands clean from the taint of slavery.
From North America — Volume 1 by Trollope, Anthony
But she did not the less feel how terrible would be the effect of any disseverance from Lady Lufton.
From Framley Parsonage by Trollope, Anthony
The want of harmony in taste, feeling and character, is no reason for disseverance.
From The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
Some of these gentlemen pleaded their cause so well that they almost made it appear that episcopal ascendancy would be restored in England by the disseverance of the Church and State.
From Phineas Redux by Trollope, Anthony
To examine thoroughly the cause of this disseverance from actuality which haunted the pastoral throughout its many transformations would lead us beyond all possible bounds of this inquiry.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
