disseverance

They did hate each other, and this hatred had, at one time, almost produced an absolute disseverance of even the courtesies which are so necessary between a bishop and his clergy.

From Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope

Accompanying the dead in its watery wanderings, he sees, with keen sympathy, its utter disseverance from the world it has left, and contrasts with its condition the hopeless sorrow of his own disappointed youth.

From The Bront? Family, Vol. 2 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland

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 Anthony Trollope

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 Walter W. Greg

The disseverance of the operative from the speculative element of Freemasonry occurred at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Albert G. Mackey