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The legal dissolution of a marriage
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divorce
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Word definitions for divorce in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French divorce (14c.), from Latin divortium "separation, dissolution of marriage," from divertere "to separate, leave one's husband, turn aside" (see divert ). Not distinguished in English from legal separation until mid-19c.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divorce \Di*vorce"\, n. [F. divorce, L. divortium, fr. divortere, divertere, to turn different ways, to separate. See Divert .] (Law) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, ...
Usage examples of divorce.
Cicero mentions the Acta as a sheet in which he expected to find the city news and gossip about marriages and divorces.
Lucien, whose first wife, Anne Christine Boyer, had died in 1801, had married his second wife, Alexandrine Laurence de Bleschamps, who had married, but who had divorced, a M.
Was the concertmaster actually intending to marry Bellini and had she ever been divorced from Ochs?
So Millie had learnt to divorce the public image of Burgo Smyth, politician, from the private man she had once known.
Divorced or not, living together or not, Jerry was still attached to Capri heart and soul.
In 1989, after divorcing his first wife, a Las Vegas real estate broker named Lana Padilla, he married Marife Torres, a nineteen-year-old Filapina from Cebu City.
After the Pacheco case and up until this Joe Mondragon thing, Bloom had once again comfortably immersed himself in the endless petty squabbles, divorces, and mundane litigations of the poor people of Chamisa County.
He had suggested coemptio, or bride-purchase, a marriage easily dissolved by divorce.
Revenge, Hector went off mooning about his ex-wife Debbi, who during the divorce proceedings, on the advice of some drug-taking longhair crank attorney, had named the television set, a 19-inch French Provincial floor model, as corespondent, arguing that the Tube was a member of the household, enjoying its own space, fed out of the house budget with all the electricity it needed, addressed and indeed chatted with at length by other family members, certainly as able to steal affection as any cheap floozy Hector might have met on the job.
This was all I lacked-getting myself shot, or named corespondent in a divorce suit.
She had been tempted to name Redeye as corespondent when she and Roger split, but since the divorce was uncontested, she resisted.
Remember what happened to Annette just because she was named as corespondent in a very ugly divorce action.
Young priests are leaving, some to get married, women are demanding to be allowed into the priesthood, the Vatican itself is critized for hoarding its vast wealth and not using it to feed the starving, to help the underprivileged, criticized for not condemning the violence in Northern Ireland more strongly, openly mocked its outdated views on birth control, divorce, and plenty of other topics which seem to have no relevance to today s society.
States, including North Carolina in which the marriage was performed and where the other party to the marriage is still domiciled when the divorce was decreed.
She was not, therefore, precluded from challenging the finding of the Nevada court that the decedent was, at the time of the divorce, domiciled in that State.