disseverance

Example Sentences

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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

I object, sir, to this disseverance between the sexes, and I object to the Senate of the United States giving its sanction in advance or in any way to this character of legislation.

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

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)

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.

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