disseverance

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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

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

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

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 Mackey, Albert G.

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.