dissever

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Its reign is almost over; its powers to dissever and destroy are now being rapidly eliminated from a Constitution whose basic meaning is justice, equality, and love.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various

The flesh does not conjoin, but dissever; although through its very severance it suggests a shadow of the union which it cannot bestow.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

But—and I forbear to lead up to it artistically—I dissever myself from your chariot wheels.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Of course there would be marriage, but of deliberate choice, and after a long and purely platonic friendship, in which all the horrid little failings that do most to dissever could be recognized and weighed.

From Ancestors A Novel by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

To open the mind to unreserved communication, is imbecility; to cover it with a vail, to dissever its internal workings from its external manifestations, is dissimulation and falsehood.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various