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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Divorcement

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.

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divorcement

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

WordNet
divorcement

n. the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: 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.