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Divorce   /dɪvˈɔrs/   Listen
noun
Divorce  n.  
1.
(Law)
(a)
A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."
(b)
The separation of a married woman from the bed and board of her husband divorce a mensa et toro (or a mensa et thoro), "from bed and board".
2.
The decree or writing by which marriage is dissolved.
3.
Separation; disunion of things closely united. "To make divorce of their incorporate league."
4.
That which separates. (Obs.)
Bill of divorce. See under Bill.


verb
Divorce  v. t.  (past & past part. divorced; pres. part. divorcing)  
1.
To dissolve the marriage contract of, either wholly or partially; to separate by divorce.
2.
To separate or disunite; to sunder. "It (a word) was divorced from its old sense."
3.
To make away; to put away. "Nothing but death Shall e'er divorce my dignities."





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"Divorce" Quotes from Famous Books



... that Mrs. Wylie was the divorced wife of Lute Blackwell. She had come to Saguache from the mountains several years before. Soon after there had been an inconspicuous notice in the Sentinel to the effect that Cora Blackwell was suing for divorce from Lute Blackwell, then a prisoner in the penitentiary at Yuma. Another news item followed a week later stating that the divorce had been granted together with the right to use her maiden name. Unobtrusively she had started her little store. ...
— Crooked Trails and Straight • William MacLeod Raine
... tell you that. No, sir,—Madame is come no more on me, on St. Ignace at all. When she leave me, go nurse seeck man down with the 'Pic,' she is no more for me. Voyez—m'sieu, I am tired of my wife. I shall try get a divorce." ...
— Ringfield - A Novel • Susie Frances Harrison
... was born, his mother was instituting divorce proceedings against his father. She obtained the divorce, and remarried when Alfred was three months old. From the time he was a mere baby she taught him to hate his father. Everything that went wrong with him she told him was his father's fault. His first vivid impression ...
— Lifted Masks - Stories • Susan Glaspell
... I prefer friendship. It lasts. There! I see disapproval in your face! You Americans are so literal." She gazed into the fireplace for a moment, her lips parted in a whimsical smile. He waited for her to go on; the words were on her tongue's end, he could tell. "A divorce at twenty-five. I believe that is the accepted age, isn't it? If one gets beyond that, she—but, enough of this!" She sprang to her feet and stood before him, the flash dying in her eyes even as it was born that he might ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon
... fancy will be effective, but I can't think of another. Would one good joke of that sort be sufficient? A propos of the lady marksman at Bisley, I should like to advise all ladies to "try the Butts," only I am afraid this might be taken for a reference to the President of the Divorce Division. How could I work the Jackson case in neatly? Would it be allowable to pin my speech on the wedding-cake, and read it off? Also, could I wear a mask? Any hints would be ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 101, August 22, 1891 • Various


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