disseverance

Example Sentences

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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)

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

This disseverance into millions of human beings is that each may realize God in himself.

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

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 Leyland, Francis A.

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 Trollope, Anthony