dis·sev·er

(dĭ-sĕv′ər)

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 dissēparāre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin sēparāre, to separate; see separate.]

dis·sev′er·ance, dis·sev′er·ment n.

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disseverance

noun

The act or an instance of separating one thing from another:

detachment, disjunction, disjuncture, disseverment, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, parting, partition, separation, severance, split.

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(70) According to this British author, "the vast empire of the Czars,--a collection of the multitudinous parts rather than a great whole,--feels already within itself the symptoms of disseverance." (71) Anticipating its inevitable reduction "to a discreet and compatible size," MacFarlane argued that the extension of the Russian Empire to Turkey would only hasten this process.

Orientalism on the Margins: the Ottoman Empire under Russian eyes

Some of the circles thus oriented saw an agreement, rather than war, with Muscovy as a way to escape the atrocities of war and disseverance of Livonia.

Prelude to the birth of the "kingdom of Livonia"/"Liivimaa kuningriigi" eellugu

Thus Hass argues that for Frost "creativity exists as a separate, autonomous activity in which matter serves as evidence and resource" (34), a tenet that reverses materialism's emphasis while leaving intact its disseverance of fact from value.

The counterlove of Robert Frost

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