disseverance

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

From Four-Dimensional Vistas by Bragdon, Claude Fayette

That I was born, alas! that me is woe, That day of us must make disseverance!

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Purves, D. Laing