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Answer for the clue "The legal dissolution of a marriage ", 11 letters:
divorcement

Word definitions for divorcement in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: divorce ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divorcement \Di*vorce"ment\, n. Dissolution of the marriage tie; divorce; separation. Let him write her a divorcement. --Deut. xxiv. 1. The divorcement of our written from our spoken language. --R. Morris.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context figuratively psychology English) Complete detachment or disunion. 2 (context obsolete English) divorce

Usage examples of divorcement.

The ship-folk’s cultural divorcement from the concept of eating living things ran head-on into Mospheira’s love affair with food and meat.

Whatley carried in her purse a just-issued bill of divorcement and was not at all interested in masculine companionship.

She was sure that the king only needed to recall Parliament and they would pass a bill of divorcement.