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Disseverment

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dis·sev·er  (d-svr)
v. dis·sev·ered, dis·sev·er·ing, dis·sev·ers
v.tr.
1. To separate; sever.
2. To divide into parts; break up.
v.intr.
To become separated or disunited.
[Middle English disseveren, from Old French dessevrer, from Late Latin dissparre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin sparre, to separate; see separate.]
dis·sever·ance, dis·sever·ment n.


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He who is taken out to pass through a fair scene to the scaffold, thinks not of the flowers that smile on his road, but of the block and axe-edge; of the disseverment of bone and vein; of the grave gaping at the end: and I thought of drear flight and homeless wandering--and oh
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