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The legal dissolution of a marriage
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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.